On 24.11.2011, at 13:53, Carnë Draug wrote:
> On 24 November 2011 08:07, Lukas Reichlin <lukas.reich...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> What version are you using? This will only work in 3.6.0 (should be
> release pretty soon) or currently in the dev version. If you want to
> test it without compiling the dev version, you can replace the pkg.m
> and news.m files from you current installation
>
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/c3c8f513cf1f/scripts/pkg/pkg.m
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/c3c8f513cf1f/scripts/miscellaneous/news.m
>
> You need to use the modified pkg because it identifies the NEWS file
> and moves it into the packinfo dir. The modified news then allows you
> read the news from the prompt.
>
> Carnë
I'm using 3.4.3. Is there a way to tell Octave 3.4 that it should move NEWS to
packinfo upon installation? Currently NEWS gets lost (neither control-2.2.1/
nor control-2.2.1/doc nor control-2.2.1/packinfo) and I would like to have a
solution for Octave 3.4 series. (I'd like to provide 3.4 users with the NEWS
file and I don't want to increase the required octave version to 3.6 just
because of that.)
Thanks for your help,
Lukas
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