GNU APL 1.0 available

Posted Oct 3, 2013 20:03 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: GNU APL 1.0 available by khim
Parent article: GNU APL 1.0 available

My thought: If there are so many restrictions on it and it's so unlikely to work, why even offer it?

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GNU APL 1.0 available

Posted Oct 3, 2013 21:49 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (1 responses)

My thought: If there are so many restrictions on it and it's so unlikely to work, why even offer it?

Well, if you read the description you'll find out that it's actually LSB package which is “supported perfectly by debian”.

Apparently nowadays “supported perfectly” is supposed to read as “if you are very lucky” but hey, soon everything will change! We just had no time to solve this problem, we only try to that for last twelve years, you know. But soon everything will be a-okay. Trust us.

GNU APL 1.0 available

Posted Mar 29, 2014 0:32 UTC (Sat) by jrn (subscriber, #64214) [Link]

libreadline and lapack are not part of the LSB standard, so people trying to make portable binaries are supposed to bundle them, link statically to them, or document the dependency.