On 28 Apr 2010, at 20:55, Philip Nienhuis wrote: > Hi Carlo > ... this is what you wrote to me (& the octave-dev list) at 14 april > 2010 18:38, retrieved from my own mail archive: >> On 13 Apr 2010, at 22:17, Philip Nienhuis wrote: >>> > >>> > I just uploaded version 1.0.12 of the io package to the package > : > <description of fixes etc snipped> > : >> Philip, >> Thanks for the contribution! >> I see the package you uploaded still contains the subversion >> information in the .svn subdirectories. >> To correctly create a package tarball you should not just compress >> the >> main/io directory in your working >> directory, you should first do something like: >> svn export main/io ~/io-1.0.12 >> then >> cd; tar cvzf io-1.0.12.tar.gz io-1.0.12 >> For this time I happened to notice and I rebuilt the package from the >> subversion repository before doing the upload. > > So apparently you rebuilt it yourself but maybe forgot to upload it. > Next in sequence I didn't bother to check if it was properly > uploaded after all. Hmm, next time I *will* check - I suppose that's > part of the duties when preparing a new package version. you are right, sorry I should have checked better myself.
> > BTW the DESCRIPTION file says the "octave-forge community" is the > maintainer of io. Is there a reason for that? > Currently the vast majority of function files in io is from me. > Until some other future io function file developer beats me to that, > I think I might better take up responsibility. OK? > If you all agree, I'll change the relevant stanzas in the io package > next time I prepare an update. When a package is marked as maintained by "the community" it's because no one volunteered to be the maintainer. You are very welcome to take over this package. > Philip c. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
