Hi,
I just subitted an upated package for octave-forge to the tracker.
There is one part that I don't particularly like and would like some
feedback on:
Octave-forge is a set of extensions to octave and must have its path
added to octave's search path. There is a global startup script in
/sw/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc that is the proper place to do
it. This script is empty by default.
octave-forge's install script prints out info to the user about what to
add to the search path, but that will not be seen by the user so I've
made sure that fink's install phase captures that output and places
_adds_ it to octave's global startup file in case it has been modified.
Snippet from .info file
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make install prefix=%i | grep LOADPATH | cat
%p/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc - >
%p/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc.new
mv %p/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc
%p/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc.old
mv %p/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc.new
%p/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc
I see a number of problems here, such as upgrading of the package means
adding more and more to the path. I also have no clue whatsoever what
will happen in a binary package.
Maybe the best solution is to move whatever startup file there is aside
and just add the path info together with a notice of what has been
done? Any user/admin who changes the _global_ startup script would
probably find that message in no time.
Or perhaps just add a line to the startup script to read a different
file octaverc.fink which holds the added path info?
Maybe even better to make package octave add some lines to the global
startup script to check for the presence of a file named
'octave-forge-path' and read it. Jeff, comments?
/Per
PS. You can tell I was writing as I was thinking, right...
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Per Persson
Blekinge Institute of Technology
Dept. of Signal Processing and Telecommunications
www: http://www.its.bth.se/staff/pee
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