Last news for ArcheOS

[luca]

Hi all,
sorry for the long silence... the discussion in the italian mailing list 
went on a little bit, but we did not have time to translate the news in 
english.
I try to summirize.
In the last weeks there were many new proposals for software to be 
included in ArcheOS. The last one came yesterday and reguards InVesalius 
(http://svn.softwarepublico.gov.br/trac/invesalius), a software for 
which elaborates medical data (especially from CT or MRI equipements), 
which could be usefull for mummiology. For this reason we chose the 
strategy for the next teps in ArcheOS development:

1) to freeze the software proposals to release an ArcheOS Caesar beta 
(also because the alfa is pretty stable)

2) to finish the packaging for the beta release (especially with the 
package of the QGIS plugins we consider useful in archaeology: 
http://arc-team-open-research.blogspot.com/2011/11/qgis-python-plugins-call-for.html). 
This means to package VTP (http://vterrain.org/) and some other smaller 
software 
(http://arc-team-open-research.blogspot.com/2011/12/qgis-and-virtual-terrain-project.html). 
All the new proposals will refer to ArcheOS testing.

3) to choose the name of next ArcheOS release 
(http://www.archeos.eu/wiki/doku.php?id=archeos_next)

4) to package the new software for ArcheOS next release in a new way. 
Untill now we prepared binary package, but Fabrizio proposed a new way 
to prepare .deb package from sourcecode, which will be architecture 
indipendet. This means that, if we follow this new way, the next release 
of ArcheOS will be able to run also on 64 bit machine. Fabrizio also 
proposed to orginize the software in metapackage (GIS, CAd, etc...) and 
this will be useful during ArcheOS installation and management.

Well, i think it is almost everything.
Let us know what do you think about it.
Greetings