On 15 Sep 2012, at 10:52, Philip Nienhuis wrote: > 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
This post on Carnë's blog summarizes the discussion about Octave/Octave-Forge/Agora at OctConf2012. A preview of Agora is here http://agora.octave.org/. HTH, c. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
