Subject: Re: [bug#61204] Scilab scientific software

From: Simon Tournier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:43:45 +0200

Hi,

On sam., 25 mars 2023 at 15:17, Nicolas Graves via Guix-patches via <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Actually, I've seen that it's possible to compile Suitesparse@3 without
> support for Metis@4. Scilab seems to work correctly, so I'll stop here
> for this version ;)

Cool!

Just a remark about [PATCH v2 3/3] gnu: Add scilab.

+    (source
+     (origin
+       (method url-fetch)
+       (uri
+        (string-append "https://oos.eu-west-2.outscale.com/scilab-releases/"
+                       version "/scilab-" version "-src.tar.gz"))
+       (sha256
+        (base32 "1hx57aji5d78brwqcf8a34i1hasm3h4nw46xjg7cgxj09s8yz5kq"))))

Is the URL stable?  It looks like the Cloud solution of Dassault
Systèmes, right?  Dassault Systèmes being the maintainer, right?

Well, the main development repository seems gitlab.com, right?

    https://gitlab.com/scilab/scilab

Why not rely on this gitlab.com URL?  Tarball if the Git history of the
repository is too heavy.  For example,

    https://gitlab.com/scilab/scilab/-/archive/5.5.0/scilab-5.5.0.tar.gz

Although some files are only in the outscale link,

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ diff -r --no-dereference scilab-5.5.0-{1,2}
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: aclocal.m4
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: bin
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: build.incl.xml
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: build.qa.incl.xml
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: CHANGES_2.X
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: CHANGES_3.X
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: CHANGES_4.X
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: CHANGES_5.0.X
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: CHANGES_5.1.X
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: CHANGES_5.2.X
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: CHANGES_5.3.X
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: CHANGES_5.4.X
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: CHANGES_5.5.X
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: checkstyle
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: config
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: configure
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: configure.ac
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: contrib
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: COPYING
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: COPYING-BSD
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: COPYING-FR
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: desktop
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: etc
Only in scilab-5.5.0-2: git_hooks
Only in scilab-5.5.0-2: .gitignore
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: GIT_info.incl
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: libs
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: license.txt
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: locale
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: m4
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: Makefile.am
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: Makefile.call_scilab.am
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: Makefile.in
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: Makefile.incl.am
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: Makefile.incl.in
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: modules
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: README_Unix
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: Readme_Visual.txt
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: README_Windows.txt
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: RELEASE_NOTES_5.0.X
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: RELEASE_NOTES_5.1.X
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: RELEASE_NOTES_5.2.X
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: RELEASE_NOTES_5.3.X
Only in scilab-5.5.0-2: scilab
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: Scilab_f2c.sln
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: scilab-lib-doc.properties.in
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: scilab-lib-doc.properties.vc
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: scilab-lib.properties.in
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: scilab-lib.properties.vc
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: scilab.pc.in
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: scilab.properties.in
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: scilab.properties.vc
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: Scilab.sln
Only in scilab-5.5.0-2: SEP
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: SVN_revision.incl
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: tools
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: Version.incl
Only in scilab-5.5.0-1: Visual-Studio-settings
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Ah, weird! :-)

Cheers,
simon