[Debian-med-packaging] DSSP statically linked version for Linux please if you prefer not to distribute sources

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Laszlo,

would you mind creating an according paragraph as preliminary package in
the tasks files?

Thanks

     Andreas.

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:07:40PM +0100, Laszlo Kajan wrote:
> Hello Maarten!
> 
> That's quite a change: you release the source now and the LICENSE is 'Boost Software License'!
> 
> Well if you indeed are making dssp(2) free software now, then I would like to package it for Debian (we have our cluster in Debian) - this also
> means that it gets packaged for Ubuntu.
> 
> * Is this all right for you?
> 
> * Would you like to do the packaging yourself? - I can help of course.
> 
> * Even if I do the packaging, you can review/modify it any time since it is going to be in a repository in the Debian Med project
> (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/).
> 
> What say you?
> 
> Thanks a lot for freeing dssp2 up - this is great news!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Laszlo
> 
> On 16/03/12 11:50, Maarten L. Hekkelman wrote:
> > Op 14-3-2012 12:09, Laszlo Kajan schreef:
> >> Ah I see you packed the 32-bit version with 'the UPX executable packer http://upx.sf.net' - that's why it is smaller.
> > 
> > That's not all, I linked in too many libraries that were not needed (I was using a generic makefile).
> > 
> > The source code and a smaller binary are on our ftp site now.
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.cmbi.ru.nl//pub/molbio/software/dssp-2/
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > -maarten
> > 
> > 
> >> Thank you very much! Tobias may test both the 32 and the 64 bit versions for speed - if he does, I am sure he is going to email you the results!
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Laszlo
> >>
> >> On 14/03/12 11:50, Maarten L. Hekkelman wrote:
> >>> Dear Laszlo,
> >>>
> >>>> Thank you very much!
> >>>
> >>>> Wow that statically linked binary is much smaller than the
> >>>> dynamically linked one! Do you have debugging symbols in that? - just
> >>>> curious, because I expected the statically linked one to be bigger.
> >>>
> >>> I don't remember, I found this statically linked version in my out box, had to create one for a colleague some time ago. I guess the differences
> >>> have to do with different versions of the libraries used.
> >>>
> >>>> Amm - could you please compile for x86_64 instead of 386? - we have
> >>>> 64-bit machines here - sorry, I forgot to mention this. I suppose
> >>>> this also is going to improve performance.
> >>>
> >>> Here it is. And it is much bigger again. :-) You'll have to test to see if it is any faster than the 32 bit version.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>>
> >>> -maarten
> > 
> 
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