Daniel J Sebald wrote: > On 09/14/2012 06:53 PM, Júlio Hoffimann wrote: >> Hi Daniel, >> >> There are three, maybe four levels of Octave code: >> >> 1) Core Octave written in C++ (i.e., compiled code) >> 2) Commonly-used, moderately-general m-scripts (i.e., interpreted code) >> 3) Compiled or scripted code related to user interface, whether that >> be a graphics engine, GUI/IDE, etc. >> 4) Voluminous packages of field-related m-scripts >> >> >> Thanks for your reply. These levels are familiar to me, i'm contributing >> with very little patches when i have time. >> >> This week i started to use Octave Forge, precisely the optimization >> package. I found some missing headers during the installation and wanted >> to submit another patch as usual, but then i realized i should clone >> another repository, find another bug track system, subscribe to another >> mailing list to discuss about it. I said to myself, this is wrong, let's >> make it better. > > I understand that, and this confusion may have been one of the > motivations for the conversation at OctConf 2012. It stems from the > choice of name Octave Forge, which is similar to the name SourceForge > (whether that is the reason for the name, I'm not sure), and if I'm > remembering correctly Octave development too may have been on > SourceForge at one time. > > Even though the web pages for Octave and OctaveForge are fairly well > organized, they might not be so descriptive about the relationship > between the two. For example, on the main page > > http://octave.sourceforge.net/ > > it states "Octave-Forge is a central location for the collaborative > development of packages for GNU Octave." Nothing there implies > Octave-Forge is closely tied in with the Octave core code <snip>
Moreover, nothing on the main Octave web pages (www.octave.org) mentions Octave-Forge anywhere, nor octave.sf.net, nor even the fact that add-on packages for Octave exist at all and can be found on Sourceforge uhm..., Octave-Forge. Only indirectly, on the wiki linked to from the "Support" page, one can find the first casual mention of add-on packages. IMO this setup was a community decision at the time so I never bothered much. Philip ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How fast is your code? 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219672;13503038;z? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
