[Insight-users] Reproducible results and semi-open science

[Andriy Fedorov]

>  There are Debian and Ubuntu development packages for CGAL.
>  This would make the installation of CGAL a lot easier that
>  if we have to building in the Insight Journal machine.
>
>
>  Could you please list the exact list of packages that you
>  will require ?
>
>
>      a) libcgal-dev (3.2.1-1)  ?
>      b) libboost-dev (1.33.1)  ?
>
>
>  Please let us know,

Luis,

First off, I have CGAL installed from sources. Also, as Alex pointed
out earlier, CGAL uses functionality of some additional libraries for
multi-precision arithmetic: GMP and MPFR. It also uses BLAS and
LAPACK. However, only boost is a required prerequisite, according to
the CGAL installation manual.

So, I tried to install just these two packages you mentioned on my
Kubuntu laptop (Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake), to test if the
functionality of my code is preserved when I have just libcgal-dev and
libboost-dev installed.

Unfortunately, I was unable to complete the installation. I am unable
to install libcgal-dev (the version of CGAL my package manager finds
is the latest 3.3.1), because package manager reports broken package.
This issue has been discussed on Ubuntu forums, apparently
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cgal/+bug/158159)

So, I guess, I am unable to answer your original question at this point...

Andrey


>
>
>    Thanks
>
>
>       Luis
>
>
>
>  BTW: Please keep this discussion in the developers and or users list,
>      this is a topic of potential interest to the larger community.
>
>
>  ----------------------
>
>
>  Andriy Fedorov wrote:
>
> > Hi Luis,
> >
> > Thank you for your reply. As always, it is very insightful! :)
> >
> > I do not have the answers on the open questions you have. Indeed, one
> > has to completely rethink what is legal and what is not. For now, I am
> > going to leave these questions for my superiors to answer.
> >
> > Let me answer the practical questions you had.
> >
> >
> >
> > > The concerns are rather of practical nature:
> > >
> > >          How big is software "A"   ?
> > >
> > >          How easy is to automatically
> > >          build/install software "A" ?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > Alexandre was right in his guess that one of the software packages I
> > mentioned was CGAL (http://cgal.org). I didn't want to go into
> > specifics right away.
> >
> > CGAL is big, and it does not use CMake. It also depends on Boost
> > (http://boost.org, which is distributed under an opensource license).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >          How many other potential submissions
> > >          could benefit from software "A"
> > >          being available in the IJ server ?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > I cannot answer this one, but I think both CGAL and Boost are quite
> > generic to benefit other users.
> >
> >
> >
> > > Please let us know if this answer your original question,
> > > and whether you have any additional questions regarding
> > > the Insight Journal.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > How difficult it is to have CGAL installed on the IJ server? Can this be
> done?
> >
> > I assume the decision whether to install package like CGAL on IJ
> > server or not can depend on the value of the potential submission
> > which will benefit from it. If this is the case, please let me know --
> > I am ready to discuss this offline.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Andriy Fedorov
> >
> >
>