From maintainers-request at octave dot org Sat Jun 18 04:51:47 2005
Subject: Re: packaging system
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Hauberg?= <soren at hauberg dot org>
To: Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun dot ac dot za>
CC: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>, maintainers@octave.org
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 11:51:09 +0200

I'm going to need a little hand-holding here, as don't quite understand 
your post.

You want the installation routine to (before installation) check if a 
file called pre-install.m exist, and if it does run it from Octave, 
right? If so then that's just a minor change that can be done in a 
minute. You also want a similar post-install.m, to be executed at the 
end of installation? (btw, should these be .m files or shell scripts?)

What I don't get is what these scripts should do. Could you elaborate a bit?

/Søren

Stefan van der Walt wrote:
> I still think that something like a pre- and post-install script would
> be useful.  Why stop at being able to modify the installation prefix?
> Why not create a standard structure with all installation variables,
> populated before installation starts.
> 
> The installing package then has an opportunity to modify this struct
> in the pre-install script after which installation takes place.
> Afterwards, the post-install script can do any additional
> admin/cleanup needed while having access to that information still.
> 
> Your package has everything in place to do this already.  It would
> just require some minor modifications.
> 
> Regards
> Stefan
> 
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:01:35PM +0200, S?ren Hauberg wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>I've updated the code (it's still at http://hauberg.org/octave-package), 
>>with the following changes:
>>*) If the archive contains a directory, cd to that directory. This means 
>>that package can keep it's files in a directory (e.g. PACKAGE-VERSION).
>>*) A bit more error checking. Not enough though
>>*) Support for uninstallation of packages. No dependency checking is 
>>done during uninstallation.
>>*) The installation prefix is defined by the global variable 
>>OCTAVE_PACKAGE_PREFIX. If this variable is not defined an error is 
>>issued. Packages will be install in OCTAVE_VALUE_PREFIX/PACKAGE-VERSION
>>
>>As long as the packages doesn't have to many errors the code is usable 
>>in it's current state.
>>
>>/Søren
>>
> 
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