On 20.11.2011, at 22:11, Carnë Draug wrote: > 2011/11/20 Lukas Reichlin <lukas.reich...@gmail.com>: >> On 20.11.2011, at 21:11, Carnë Draug wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> a recent change in octave core (in pkg.m and news.m) will allows users >>> to read the NEWS file of packages from the octave prompt too. For >>> example, news("signal") would show the NEWS from the signal package >>> instead of the core NEWS. >>> >>> For the new functionality to happen, the NEWS file needs to be in the >>> root of the package. However, some of the packages in octave-forge >>> have this file in doc/. As such, I'm moving them. >>> >>> Other less common files that pkg recognizes during package >>> installation are ONEWS (for when the NEWS file becomes too long) and >>> ChangeLog (a much more detailed description of changes on each >>> release. Something like the output of svn log). >>> >>> Carnë >> >> Hi Carnë >> >> The control package is one of these. Go ahead, but please make sure that the >> Makefile is adapted accordingly such that the NEWS file doesn't get lost by >> installation. >> >> Lukas > > Well remembered. Most packages don't have one, I had forgot about it. > Should be fixed now. Thanks > > Carnë
I downloaded the GNU Tarball from [1] and installed the package. Unfortunately, the NEWS file still gets lost upon package installation. Could you please fix that? Lukas PS: IIRC I had similar problems some time ago. This must have been the reason why I put NEWS into /doc. [1] http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/main/control/?view=tar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev