Bug 226481 – sci-visualization/xyscan-3.02: new ebuild

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Benjamin Bannier 2008-06-14 04:02:28 UTC]

Hi,

I was looking for a software in gentoo to extract data points from scientific plots, but couldn't find anything that had what I needed.

Digitizer has fancy image recognition, and g3data a handy looking glass, but I wanted to extract points with error bars.

So here's an ebuild for xyscan, that does just that in a very focussed way: extracting data points with optional (asymmetric) errors from plots.

The software is mature, small and GPL-2. The only dependecy is >=qt-4.3.0.

This is just my humble suggestion -- so please feel free to close this bug if you think nobody would ever need this.


Cheers,

Benjamin

[Comment 1 Benjamin Bannier 2008-06-14 04:03:41 UTC]

Created attachment 156697 [details]
Initial ebuild

[Comment 2 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) 2008-06-16 10:24:09 UTC]

Hi Benjamin,

Thanks much for the ebuild and xyscan looks like an
interesting package. I hope I can have a closer look
at it sometime soon.

Best,
Markus 

[Comment 3 Benjamin Bannier 2008-06-21 21:54:09 UTC]

Created attachment 157957 [details]
new version, updated ebuild

Hi Markus,

I am attaching an improved ebuild for the new xyscan version (I replaced filenames in the src url with variables). I also gave the file the correct upstream version name.


Cheers,

Benjamin

[Comment 4 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) 2008-06-22 10:25:10 UTC]

Hi Benjamin,

Thank you very much! I've had a brief look at xyscan 
yesterday but didn't get to test things well enough
yet. Hopefully, soon ..

Best,
Markus

[Comment 5 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) 2008-07-03 12:54:14 UTC]

Hi Benjamin,

I've decided to change the ebuild a bit to avoid having to
create the wrapper and installing a binary in /usr/share. 
I've posted the final ebuild+patch at [1]. Please take a 
look and if it works for you I'll add it to portage.

Thanks,
Markus

[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~markusle/xyscan/

[Comment 6 Benjamin Bannier 2008-07-03 14:19:45 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
Hi Markus,

> I've decided to change the ebuild a bit to avoid having to
> create the wrapper and installing a binary in /usr/share. 

works like a charm and is a much better solution. Thank you for looking into it. And thanks for your interest in xyscan.

I am following the upstream and will post new versions here; let me know if there is anything else with the ebuild I can help with.


Cheers,

Benjamin

[Comment 7 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) 2008-07-04 01:17:29 UTC]

Thank you very much for your help; xyscan is now in portage!
If you notice any future version bumps we'd appreciate if you
could let us know.

Best,
Markus