<sorry for the 2 empty posts - some hickup of seamonkey here> Carlo de Falco <carlo.defa...@gm...> wrote: > On 10 Feb 2010, at 23:24, Philip Nienhuis wrote: > >> 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. > > Thanks, I'm uploading it on octave-forge
Thank you. But see below.... >> 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/ > > I've corrected this. thanks! > >> - 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. Although I manually corrected the relevant files before uploading, I still see truncated "short" descriptions in the io package overview on the web site. The truncation occurs at the dot in "OpenOffice.org". Did you re-generate the package & html stuff? >> The html works OK, but I can't check the php-stuff on my box. > As far as I understand generate_html just uses functions from octave- > core to generate the help text. > So, if something is wrong in this it is probably a bug in the octave > help system that you may want to report > to bug-oct...@octave.org I found the culprit in "get_first_help_sentence.m" in the Help package in core octave. But I'm a bit reluctant: 1. It can be fixed, but at the cost of perhaps unneeded complexity while the problems it solves may be rare and can easily be fixed by hand. 2. OTOH, manually corrected short descriptions apparently do not survive transferral to the octave-forge web site.... 3. In the help sections of the relevant io function files I could also simply replace "OpenOffice.org" by "OpenOffice_org". Not perfect, not nice, but IMO more robust than fixing "get_first_help_sentence.m". Advice? (I slightly prefer solution 3) 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
