From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Jan  6 09:47:58 2004
Subject: packages (was: benchmarks)
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 09:47:51 -0600

On  5-Jan-2004, Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net> wrote:

| BTW, moving more stuff from octave-forge to octave,
| and providing a CRAN-like list of available packages
| will help make octave look more complete.  This has
| to be linked directly from the octave home page so that
| people can find it.

Agreed.  It would help if someone with some experience with packaging
systems could help design and possibly implement something for
Octave.  I don't think it needs to be complicated, and doesn't have to
handle binary packages.  If you want to install a package that uses
.oct files, then I think it is OK to expect that you will have to
build them when you install the package.  Anything else will be too
difficult for us to maintain (too many different
version/OS/etc. combinations to expect success).

jwe