On 26 Mar 2012, at 12:45, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote: > 2012/3/26 c. <carlo.defa...@gmail.com>: >> >> On 26 Mar 2012, at 10:41, Carnë Draug wrote: >> >>> I think a perl script would be better. >>> The pre_install and PKG_ADD >>> approach are more complicate to write and to cover corner cases and >>> seem to be failing. I'll try to write something this morning. >> >> I don't think we can assume every package maintainer can use perl. >> >>> Carnë >> c. > > If a perl script exist, it is trivial to make an octave wrapper > (problably it will work only on Unix and Mac). However, if the script > needs improvement then only dev with perl abilities will be able to > help. Definitely the best would be an Octave script....
And we can also not assume that maintainers have perl installed on their machine. That is not currently a dependence of Octave. Octave has already loads of dependency, I would think twice before adding a new one ... c. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
