On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Carlo de Falco <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7 Jun 2010, at 12:04, Michael Goffioul wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Jaroslav Hajek <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> 3. Obviously, I'll be glad if others can check my code and possibly >>> improve it. >> >> Just a small improvement suggestion, for anybody's willing to do it, >> it would be nice to get the list of available packages using some "list" >> flag in pkg. >> >> This seems a logical extension, as you're not gonna necessarily >> be browsing octave-forge pages to download the packages you want >> to install, so you might not know what packages are available. >> >> Michael. > > I cannot contribute this functionality myself at the moment as I am unable > to build the developement version of Octave on my system.
I think you should be able to build now, the missing file is online. > But to make the task simpler for who wants to do it, I prepared this simple > php script: > > http://octave.sourceforge.net/list_packages.php > > which returns the list of available packages formatted as plain text. > The actual implementation of pkg -forge list should now be something as easy > as: > > [text, succ] = urlread ("http://octave.sourceforge.net/list_packages.php";); > if (succ) > disp(text); > endif > > c. > Brilliant, we can use this instead of grepping through the result of urlread ("http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php";); thanks -- RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD computing expert & GNU Octave developer Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU) Prague, Czech Republic url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
