On 23 April 2012 12:02, Carnë Draug <carandraug+...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23 April 2012 10:47, Michael Creel <michael.cr...@uab.es> wrote: >> 2012/4/23 Carnë Draug <carandraug+...@gmail.com>: >>> Hi everybody >>> >>> I have noticed that for some reason the ann package does not appear on >>> the list of octave-forge packages [1] but is on our servers [2]. I >>> tried to install the package myself to regenerate the documentation >>> but install fails with a bunch of errors and warnings about deprecated >>> syntax. Also, it might be of note that the ann library of the package >>> is 1.1.1 but 1.1.2 has already been released which fixes compilation >>> bugs for new releases of gcc (maybe that's why I was not able to >>> install it). Would anyone care to take a look into it? >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Carnë >>> >>> [1] http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php >>> [2] >>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Forge%20Packages/R2009-05-08/ann-1.0.2.tar.gz/download >> >> That package won't build using Octave > 3.2.x. The package was made >> (not by me) using SWIG to wrap the ANN library >> (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mount/ANN/). I have a little function that >> lets recent Octave call a nearest neighbors search using this library, >> in case anyone would like to use it. It requires a patch to the ANN >> code, and then building ANN, and it is a little hackish, so I'm not >> putting it in OF. >> Michael > > I don't really need it, I was just looking at it and noticed that is > not mentioned anywhere in the site. I guess an hugly hack is still > better than not working at all. But if it's that ugly at least I guess > we should at least remake the documentation (I'll try to reinstall 3.2 > and remake the documentation) and mention that octave (> 3.2.0) > conflicts with it. And updating the library itself on the package > shouldn't be too hard either.
Well, I tried to install it on 3.2 and could not. Still, I installed it from the debian repos and generated the documentation from there so it's up again. I added a noted about conflicting with >= 3.4.0. Guess it's better than nothing but if someone wants to actually fix it... Carnë ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
