* David Bateman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-18 14:54]:

> mkdoc and mktexi used to be distributed with the octave-forge monolithic
> releases.. They are however not distributed with the packages.. There
> are lots of things in the SVN to build windows binaries, mac binaries,
> packages, rpms, web pages and documentation that aren't distributed
> apart from the SVN. How would you suggest they are distributed?

As a separated package, with a name like octave-forge-dev or
octave-forge-utils.  The scripts would be installed in, e.g., /usr/bin and
this should simplify things for the developers.

> The mkdoc and mktexi scripts are only to build fixed.texi and comms.texi
> files, though are usable by other octave-forge packages wanting to have
> automatic generation of the documentation in the same manner. Why
> distribute this at all? If you have to for octave-forge on debian then
> package mkdoc and mktexi with a build depends only for the comms and fixed
> toolboxes..

Yes, this is the idea.

-- 
Rafael

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