Søren Hauberg wrote: > tir, 23 12 2008 kl. 07:56 -0700, skrev Jonathan Stickel: >> On 12/22/08 octave-dev-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: >>> What I suggest is that package maintainers makes the releases. The >>> only thing they wont be able to do is to upload the packages and web >>> pages to Sourceforge. That is, when a maintainer decides to make a >>> release he/she creates the package file, and the relevant web pages. >>> These files should then be made available to a privileged user who then >>> uploads them to Sourceforge. This is still a bit tedious and could be >>> automated, but I don't think it can be improved within the limitations >>> of Sourceforge. >> This seems like a good incremental step. So, how do we do it? I >> imagine that preparing a release tarball from a package folder is easy >> enough, but I wouldn't know where to begin with preparing web pages for >> my package. > > So, I've created a package that allows you to build web pages for any > installed package. It's work in progress, but what I currently have is > available at http://hauberg.org/wiki/doku.php?id=generate_html > > With this package installed you can do something like > > generate_package_html ("your_package_name", "outdir", "octave-forge"); > > which will generate a directory with HTML files called "outdir". The > "octave-forge" argument affects the visual layout of the generated > pages. The HTML files does, however, not integrate with the current > function reference at octave.sf.net. So, some work is needed before this > stuff can be used... >
I recently made some modifications to the functions in the data-smoothing package and would like to facilitate a "release". Should I follow your suggested procedure as you suggest above? After I do this, what do I do with the html files and the package tarball I create? Thanks, Jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
