On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
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> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 14:33:15 -0400
> CC: [email protected]
> Subject: [OctDev] A few (Octave) ideas
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> 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.
>
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> And my 2cents:
R has a pretty robust and comprehensive system of packages which can be
automatically downloaded, compiles and installed from a list of mirrors. It
would be best to try and copy their system and not invent the wheel again:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/
Shai
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