Re: [igraph] About the cannoical place for igraph

[Gábor Csárdi]

Hi Pierre,

igraph.sourceforge.net is the official homepage, get the tarball
there, under 'Download'.

Best,
Gabor

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have taken over the maintaince of the igraph and python-igraph packages in
> Fedora a while ago but I only now find time to look into it and look into
> updating them.
>
> The current versions available are rather old now: 0.5.4 for both igraph and
> python-igraph.
>
> My first problem has been to find the canonical place of igraph, so far I have
> found:
>
> - http://igraph.sourceforge.net/
>   - latest version 0.6.5 in February 2013
>   - sources look like a R module, which I managed to compile as such using
>     `R CMD INSTALL`
>   - however, most of the code under src/ seems to not install (the headers 
> files
>     for example)
>
> - https://code.google.com/p/igraph/
>   - No information on the project page as to if the project is still hosted
>     there or if it has moved
>   - The download tab gives a list of nightly builds
>   - The sources tab refers to launchpad
>   - No real idea of the latest version
>
> - https://launchpad.net/igraph
>   - Clearly says the project has moved to github
>   - Mentions a 0.6.5 release in March 2013
>   - Latest commits on the sources seems to be from last month
>   - The download link refers to sourceforge
>
> - https://github.com/igraph/igraph
>   - Lastest commits are from October 2013
>   - Annouces 7 releases (tags) of which the latest (stable) seems to 0.6.6
>   - Sources seems to contain parts of all of other projects and bundles them
>     - see nexus folder
>     - see src/lapack
>     - see src/plfit which looks like a bundle of 
> https://github.com/ntamas/plfit/
>     - see msvc/include/libxml
>       - files in this folder seems to not mention any license
>     - msvc/iconv.h seems to come from the `GNU LIBICONV Library`
>     - optional/glpk is licensed GPLv3+ while igraph itself is licensed GPLv2+
>     - the interfaces/python setup.py has a 0.6.6 release which is absent from
>       pypi https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-igraph
>   - If I download the 0.6.5 release from github I get a completely different
>     tarball than from sourceforge or cran
>
> - http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/igraph/index.html
>   - latest version 0.6.6
>   - mentions igraph.sourceforget.net as website but as mentionned above that
>     website is at 0.6.5
>
> - Browsing the archives of this mailing list, I saw an igraph.org website
>   mentionned, but it returns me a 404 page
>
>
> So to be honest, I am a little lost. What is the canonical source for igraph
> development?
> Which one should I use for updating the Fedora packages?
> And how should I compile these sources? The python binding is looking for
> <igraph_datatype.h> which is present in the sources of the R package (cran,
> sourceforge) but is not installed by `R CMD BUILD`.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
> Best regards,
> Pierre
>
>
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