Hi, Søren Hauberg wrote: > Hi All > > I have been working on a fairly large vaporware project, namely the new > release system and the corresponding web page. That is, up till now, as > it is no longer vaporware :-) > > I have not really had the time to work out every detail, but it has been > saddening to see SVN versions of various packages floating around, so I > figured we should just roll out the new system and deal with bugs as > they appear. So, I have now changed the web site such that it supports > the new release system. If you don't know the details of the new system, > read the documentation Carlo wrote, which is available at > http://octave.sourceforge.net/developers.html > <snip>
Because of the relatively large number of new scripts in the IO package I took the liberty to update it (bumped version number to 1.0.10). I've followed the instructions in http://octave.sourceforge.net/developers.html as much as I could, given that I tried this on Windows under an MSYS shell and from an octave terminal. Seems to work nevertheless. I've uploaded the tarballs to the package release forum. Some notes on the developers instructions & package generation: - The last instruction on the developers page pertaining to generating the html pages lacks a directory argument, it shoud read: $ tar cvzf package-html.tar.gz package/ - In the script headers, in the first texinfo lines below the function call that are copied to the html pages, the generate_package_html.m script chokes on "embedded" dots. I've many times used the words "OpenOffice.org Calc" here and the relevant lines are truncated at "OpenOffice". No big deal but maybe someday someone can fix this script. I've manually added the missing text in the relevant function_descriptions_<letter> files. The html works OK, but I can't check the php-stuff on my box. - Finally I think it may be helpful to know exactly what svn stuff (like .svnignore files etc) can be deleted from packages (or maybe this can be automated too). AFAICS it serves no purpose for installing in octave. Philip ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
