[Bug 211626] Review Request: xtide - Calculate tide all over the world

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Summary: Review Request: xtide - Calculate tide all over the world


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211626





------- Additional Comments From pertusus at free.fr  2006-10-30 07:35 EST -------
(In reply to comment #67)

> 2) tcd-utils is a separate tarball, a small one, but needed for building
> your "xtide" rpms. So, you decided to include it, thereby defeating the
> purpose of the upstream split. Among other side-effects, you need to
> push new  xtide, libtcd, libtcd-devel, xttpd, tcd-utils  packages whenever
> one out of two upstream packages changes. Further, tideEditor, which is
> part of tcd-utils and not put into a separate rpm, adds a dependency on
> the rather large Qt. This reduces the benefit of a separate tcd-utils rpm,
> as now Qt is needed when installing the small *tide_db tools.

I my opinion this is the result of a broken upstream split, since upstream
should have put tideEditor with xtide, and not with the *tide_db tools.
Maybe this comes from historical reasons (because the original tcd-utils 
author isn't the xtide author), and not from technical reasons.

> 3) And finally, XTide, split into multiple small rpms, is "enhanced" with
> a strict dependency on a 40M data rpm.

Without wvs, xtide or tideEditor are ugly. Admitedly the 2 high resolution
wvs data files are certainly not very usefull for xtide, but removing them
from wvs adds complexity.

> The current package split is neither obvious nor convenient for the users.
> Seriously, considering the special target group of XTide and friends,
> I wouldn't even mind an all-in-one package with *optional* data.

wvs cannot really be optional, there are no coast boundaries without it.  

I don't really like having xttpd installed together with the graphical
tools, but I wouldn't object a all-in-one package (or with only libtcd, 
libtcd-devel subpackages), since indeed it is more convenient.

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