From maintainers-request at octave dot org Mon Jun 20 17:16:56 2005
Subject: Re: packaging system
From: Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun dot ac dot za>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Hauberg <soren at hauberg dot org>
Cc: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>,         "John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>, maintainers@octave.org
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:02:48 +0200

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:40:57PM +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> I do however don't like the idea of forcing people to create INDEX files 
> (it seems like a very boring thing to do), so if the INDEX format is to 
> be used I think we should have scripts to auto-generate such files. This 
> should be possible, right?

It should be little or no trouble at all:

echo "Packagename >> Description" > INDEX
echo "Misc" >> INDEX
for f in `find . -name "*.m"`; do echo `basename $f .m`; done >> INDEX

Regards
Stéfan