CGAL users discussion list

[Francois Berenger <>]

Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory) wrote:
> On mercredi 20 avril 2011 04:25:28 Francois Berenger wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the new release.
> >
> > It would be very nice if there is an announce when some RPMs
> > are available for Linux distros.
>
> == Fedora ==
> I maintain the CGAL packages in Fedora, actually. CGAL-3.8-beta1 is already in 
> Fedora 15 Beta.

Thanks a lot for doing this, really.

I noticed these beta packages for Fedora in fact.
However, CGAL is already scary enough to me.
When I read CGAL and beta in the same RPM name, I really got
scared away. :D
So, I was just waiting for the non beta packages to come out.

> I plan to push the last CGAL-3.8 release before Fedora 15 is
> officially released.
> See for examples the recent updates:
>   https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/CGAL
> and all builds of CGAL for Fedora:
>   http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=1191
>
> I do not know the status of CGAL packages for others RPM distributions. If 
> there is a need, I could easily maintain the CGAL packages in EPEL, for the 
> RHEL and CentOS distributions, because the infrastructure of EPEL is shared 
> with Fedora.

This is just the case in our lab (CentOS and RHEL). I got the RPMs 
through atrpms and was really happy with them (Wow! I could avoid 
compiling all this jungle of code!).

> == Debian ==
> For the Debian world, Joachim Reichel maintains the Debian packages for CGAL.
> See:
>   http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/cgal.html
>
> CGAL-3.8 is not yet pushed, but I know Joachim and he will do that very soon. 
> It seems Debian packages ends into Ubuntu after a while. I do not know the 
> status of CGAL packages in other distributions based on Debian.

Usually, Debian and Ubuntu always have all the cool software. I was not 
worried for them.

Thanks a lot,
Francois.