On 19 Jul 2009, at 15:23, Thomas Weber wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 09:12:06PM +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote: >> søn, 19 07 2009 kl. 19:44 +0200, skrev Thomas Weber: >>> are there objections against moving lauchli.m from special-matrix >>> into >>> miscellaneous and eliminating the (then empty) special-matrix >>> package? >> >> I don't have any objections to moving this function elsewhere, but >> perhaps someone else does? Anyway, why should this function go into >> 'miscellaneous'? I'm not against this choice of package, I'm just >> curious as to why this one got picked. > > Well, I couldn't think of a better place/package. For what it's worth, > we patched it into the "octave-miscellaneous" package in Debian over a > year ago and haven't received any complaints. > > Maybe a strategy like the following would be good: > 1) If you have 1-2 small functions, that fit nowhere in the more > specialized packages, put them into miscellaneous. > > 2) If functions are of general interest and not specialized, put them > into general. > > Another candidate for such a treatment would be physical-constants, > which generates just one .m file (also its generation uses a Python > script). > > Thomas
I am personally against the idea of grouping together all packages that contain few (or even only one) functions, for example I like the ability to have "physicalconstant" installed without garbling the octave namespace with all the stuff in the "miscellaneous" or "general" package which I usually don't use... I also believe this approach is more consistent with the packaging system phylosophy: In the near future (I should have finished doing this long time ago, sorry for my delay Søren ;) ) we expect to move to a release system where each package maintainer can take care of his/her package independently, so forcibly grouping functions that are maintained by different people would likely mess up things quite a bit... In case it is to much of a hussle to have a deb package for each octave package, maybe you could have debs containing more than one octave package? Just my two cents... c. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
