End of distribution of libgr by red-data-tools

[kojix2]

Since sciapp/gr distributes the official package, we are planning to end the distribution of the red-data-tools package.
However, there are some problems with the official package of sciapp/gr.

First, there seems to be some kind of key problem and the repository is not added correctly.

• openSUSE build service and Ruby sciapp/gr#142
• openSUSE build service sciapp/gr#143

Second, the shared library cannot be detected by pkg-config, so you need to set the environment variable GRDIR.
This may be because the package distributed with sciapp/gr installs the files in a non-standard location on Linux.

Despite these few problems, I think it is preferable to improve the official package instead of the red-data-tools package.

[kou]

Despite these few problems, I think it is preferable to improve the official package instead of the red-data-tools package.

I like this approach.

[kojix2]

Can you please end the distribution of GR?

[kou]

OK.
Should we remove existing packages? Or can we just stop distributing new packages?

[kojix2]

Probably the most correct way is to notify the end of the distribution in README.md.
Then, after a few months, remove existing packages.

[kojix2]

However, I believe that few or no one actually uses the red-data-tools GR package.
So I think we can simply stop the distribution of all the files.
Removing a mechanism that already exists does not take much time, but it does take a lot of emotional power.

[kou]

OK.
I've just removed gr/ and descriptions in README.

[kojix2]

Thanks !!