> Just a heads up about packaging starlink for linux distributions. I've
> gotten starlink to compile and link using native libraries on Mageia, and
> I've uploaded my changes to https://github.com/joequant/starlink. I
> haven't actually try to run any of the new executables, but one step at a
> time.
>
> The big bottleneck that I have right now is PGPLOT. The trouble is that
> PGPLOT seems to have a non-distro friendly non-commercial license that
> would prevent it from being added to linux distros.
>
> Fortunately, there is a drop in replacement for PGPLOT called pg2plplot
> which links against PLplot which unlike PGPLOT is actively being
> developed. Unfortunately there are a lot of additional calls that haven't
> been implemented yet,
>
this PGPLOT is a dependency?
how unfriendly is this PGLPOT? non-redistributable?
and how bad is this pg2plot? if it forks from PGPLOT, doesn't it have the
same license issues?
and if it's a drop-in replacement, how can it have unimplemented calls?
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