From graphics-request at octave dot org Mon Nov  1 17:36:47 2004
Subject: Re: New octaviz
From: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian dot org>
To: Dragan Tubic <tdragan at gel dot ulaval dot ca>
Cc: octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 17:11:09 -0600

* Dragan Tubic <tdragan at gel dot ulaval dot ca> [2004-10-31 14:41]:

> New octaviz (http://octaviz.sourceforge.net/) (0.4.0) is released! This 
> release is generally more stable than previous release and fixes large number 
> of bugs. Besides all the bugfixes, the quality of high-level scripts and 
> on-line help improved considerably thanks to Jonathan Stickel now an official 
> octaviz developper. Feature-wise the most important improvement is 
> experimental support for VTK callbacks. Finally, new octaviz should finally 
> play nicely with CygWin.
> 
> Comments, bug reports, feature wishes and comments are more then welcome.

Thanks for this effort.  I just packaged octaviz for Debian.  The binary and
source packages can be found in the following apt-getable web site:

    http://people.debian.org/~rafael/octaviz/

The package was built in a Debian testing (aka "sarge") system.  The
following build-dependency packages were used:

    cmake              2.0.3-1   
    libvtk4-dev        4.4.2-3   
    octave2.1-headers  2.1.57-4  
    lesstif-dev        0.93.94-11

Version 4.4.2 of the libvtk4 package can be found only in the experimental
Debian distribution.  Although the version of Octave in Debian testing is
already 2.1.60, I am sticking to the latest recommended version (2.1.57).

I tested some of the distributed examples and they worked as expected.

I am planning to upload this package to the official Debian repository,
unless there are strong objections.  Test reports are welcome.

-- 
Rafael