On 24 November 2011 13:14, Lukas Reichlin <lukas.reich...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
Hmm... When I made that change I just assumed that the only time
people look into the doc directory is after downloading the package
before installation. I didn't even knew the doc directory was being
copied during install until I looked into pkg to add support for this.
My worries was that users would stop seeing this information now that
they can use -forge to install packages without downloading it
themselves.
For your question, one solution is to move NEWS back to doc/ and use
post_install.m to move the file to packinfo. However, another plan I
have later is to make a patch that will make pkg offer to show the
NEWS file after install if a NEWS file is identified. If you do this,
the NEWS file won't be seen by pkg and it wouldn't "offer" to show it.
But this doesn't exist yet...
Another idea which I like more is to have the NEWS file in both the
root directory and use post_install.m to remove the file from doc if
version > 3.6.0.
Carnë
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