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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 14:33:15 -0400
CC: [email protected]
Subject: [OctDev] A few (Octave) ideas
Hello
all,
<snip>
I've also got
another idea concerning packages. I was reading through the Octave manual
the other day and saw the various difference pkg functions and urlwrite.
Anyway, to cut to the chase, I think it'd be very useful and very easy to
implement an extra pkg option to automatically download and install
Octave-Forge
packages. We could keep a small text file on one of the Octave sites
containing package names along with their dependencies and download URLs.
The new function would download this file, parse it, and then do nothing more
than download packages with urlwrite and install them with pkg install (as well
as ensuring that dependent packages are installed first). It'd be awesome
if you could take a fresh install of Octave and simply type in something like
'pkg get vrml'. I'd LOVE to program this much at least and would like to
hear what all of your thoughts are on such an idea.
I think this would be fantastic. We should have txt input files for
statisticscontrols engineeringsparse MatricesNumerical methodsetc.
In the controls engineering it could have controls pkgode pkgfilters pkg etcIn
other words all the stuff that an electrical engineering student would want.
These txt files should be adaptable by the user.
Just my 2C worth.Doug StewartPS I found that with my students it was a
pain to have to show them all the pkg system so that they could get the
controls pkg going. If you can make this smoother it would be a great help.
Thanks for your
time.
-Jacob
Abel
http://thatcadguy.blogspot.com/
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