From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Dec 24 08:51:20 2003 Subject: Re: Failure (Re: How to use octave-forge?) From: Dirk Eddelbuettel To: Christoph Dalitz Cc: Paul Kienzle , vic@norton.name, persquare@mac.com, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 08:50:02 -0600 On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 12:46:41PM +0100, Christoph Dalitz wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:48:06 -0500 > Paul Kienzle wrote: > > If it is a lack of infrastructure, would it be reasonable to put > > together a > > binary package like we have for Windows and distribute it from the > > octave-forge site? My inclination is to use the Ports install path, or > > possibly opt/loctave. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > I would suggest using EPM (http://www.easysw.com/epm/), which can create > DEB-, RPM-, OSX- or whatever packages from a single *.list file. It's a nice enough idea in theory, but in practice I suspect that it won't be strong enough to deal reliably with library dependencies and pre/post installation niceties. The .deb packages do more than just 'configure; make; make install'. That said, only experience can tell, and the cross-platform aspect is intruiging. If someone wants to try it, go for it and I'll try to help where I can based on the Debian experience. -- Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. -- Groucho Marx ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------