On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Sergei Steshenko <sergst...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: JuanPi <ajua...@gmail.com> >> To: Octave Forge <octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net>; help-oct...@octave.org; >> Octave Maintainers <octave-maintain...@octave.org> >> Cc: >> Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 3:25 PM >> Subject: Code sprint: pkg.m >> >> Hi all, >> >> I created a doodle for November. The objective is to evaluate how many >> people are joining the code sprint >> (http://wiki.octave.org/Code_sprint:_pkg.m) and on what days we should >> concentrate the activity. >> >> http://www.doodle.com/x3bh7ity5knekda8 >> >> Thank you for filling the poll >> >> -- >> JuanPi Carbajal >> ----- >> "It is one thing not to be able to perform a certain feat, but quite >> another to prove that it cannot be done." - Henry Ernest Dudeney >> ----- >> http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Help-octave mailing list >> help-oct...@octave.org >> https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/listinfo/help-octave >> > > Is there a _spec_ for 'pkg.m' ? I have my own version, which is still broken, > but less - at least, for me. > > Looking into the code and playing with it I've come to the conclusion that > _conceptually_ package management in Octave is not well defined, that's why > I'm asking: is there a _functional_ spec telling what 'pkg.m' has to do ? > > ... > > Looking at http://wiki.octave.org/Code_sprint:_pkg.m : > > "Remove -global and -local flags > * Those flags are currently ignored internally anyways so they should > disappear " > > - huh ? > > They are not ignored, and packages are installed into different locations. > > Thanks, > Sergei. >
Sergei, I do not know of functional specification for pkg.m. Maybe you can contribute with one or maybe you can join us! I amended the wiki. -- JuanPi Carbajal ----- "It is one thing not to be able to perform a certain feat, but quite another to prove that it cannot be done." - Henry Ernest Dudeney ----- http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
