Well it's great that at least that much is in place for a future release. Thinking about it, most packages don't have any dependencies so it should be ample for now.
When I do have some spare time I think I will do what one person mentioned, which is make a script to download and install all extra packages to create a "complete" distribution. -----Original Message----- From: Jaroslav Hajek [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 8:29 AM To: Jake Cc: Octave Maintainers List; octave-forge list Subject: Re: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Jake <[email protected]> wrote: > So there's still some manual work involved then. I was envisioning > something more like apt-get on Ubuntu, where it would tell you what > main packages it was going to install, the dependencies it also needs > to install, and finally prompt you to make sure that it's okay to install all of them. > I really don't see a point to this unless it does take care of the > dependencies since pkg install will fail without those dependencies. This feature is useful at least for me. I typically install the same small set of packages when I compile and install a new Octave version. This allows me to auto-download the packages from the web instead of keeping tarballs around. > > I hadn't gotten a chance to implement my idea, but it was like this: > You still have a chance to implement whatever you want. Feel free to replace all my code by something more powerful, make a patch and propose it. -- 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
