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Missing modules
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The following modules are not included in the Debian Pike packages for
various reasons, even if they are included in the module reference
(pike7.6-reference):
- DVB: Doesn't work with Linux 2.6 (and certainly not with other OSes).
- _Ffmpeg: formerly missing from Debian due to patent issues. Might be
included in the next release.
- Gnome, GTK, GDK: Uses obsolete GTK version (1.2).
- Math.Transforms.FFT: Few use cases in Pike, pulls in unnecessary
dependencies.
- Mird: Old, unmaintained, largely unknown library.
- Msql: Obsolete, proprietary DBM.
- PDF: Uses unmaintained libraries unavailable in Debian.
- Ssleay: Obsolete.
- Oracle: Proprietary DBM (so far ...).
- Java: Links with the JVM library in a non-policy compliant
way. Work needed.
- Image.TTF: Uses obsolete library (freetype1).
Places to visit
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- http://pike.ida.liu.se/ - the main Pike site
- http://community.roxen.com - community site for users of the
Roxen webserver and the Pike bugs database, information etc.
- http://caudium.net/ - website of the Caudium WebServer which is
written in Pike
- http://www.roxen.com/ - website of the Roxen IS, the company which
for a long time developed and maintained Pike as well as the Roxen
WebServer mentioned above.
Notes for developers
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The postinst script created a few directories in /usr/local which you can
use for your modules/include files. Once created by the postinst script
they will never be touched by any pike package again. The directories
are:
/usr/local/include/pike
/usr/local/include/pike7.6
/usr/local/lib/pike/site_pike
/usr/local/lib/pike7.6/site_pike
/usr/local/share/pike/site_pike
/usr/local/share/pike7.6/site_pike
Note: I have come to the conclusion that this structure isn't awfully
well though through. It is likely to change, but probably not until
Pike 7.8. What's missing is a working infrastructure for building and
installing third-pary modules and applications so that they won't have
to be rebuilt for each new Pike revision, similarly to Perl and/or
Python. Stay tuned.
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$Id: README.Debian 11 2007-12-21 08:45:48Z magnus $
-- Magnus Holmgren <magnus@kibibyte.se>, Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:43:18 +0100