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Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge Development (fwd)
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Paul Kienzle |
Subject: |
Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge Development (fwd) |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:26:39 -0400 |
On Jun 11, 2004, at 1:05 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
On 11-Jun-2004, Tom G. Smith (Smitty) <address@hidden> wrote:
| I finally got a working octave, but only by using rpms, and even
| then I had to force it it ignore dependencies. Without --nodeps I
| got this error:
|
| error: Failed dependencies:
| libqhull >= 0:2003.1 is needed by octave-forge-2004.02.12-2mdk
|
| But, as you can see below, the qhull I was installing *was* >=
2003.1, and
| I haven't located an rpm for a release any more recent than 2003.1-1:
It's unfortunate that there are problems with the RPM files that you
found, but ensuring that the packages for every distribution work
correctly is a bit beyond the scope of the Octave and Octave-forge
projects. If you want to see the packages fixed, then I suggest that
you report the problems you have with the RPM packages to whoever
built them.
octave-forge/admin/RPM has spec files in it. I don't know how
distribution specific they are.
I think the binaries for a particular distribution belong on a
distribution specific site (like debian, fedora, fink, ports) except
in the cases where there are no distribution specific sites
(windows, os x native), in which case they can live on
octave-forge.
Given that nobody is paid to maintain octave-forge, it is up
to the users of a particular distribution to volunteer to keep
the packages up to date.
Regarding the dependency problems of octave-forge, I would
prefer to see recommendations rather than requirements for
packages like qhull, ginac, gsl, etc.
The functions should just work if the supporting libraries are
installed, otherwise a nice error message should pop up
saying that a particular package needs to be installed first.
Does anybody know how to do this in a platform
independent way?
One more thing, ~3000 downloads of the octave-forge source,
~20000 downloads of windows binary. If you all could convince
your institutions to donate about $10 per user per year to the
University of Wisconsin foundation:
http://www.uwfoundation.wisc.edu/index.html
designated for Octave development, that would be enough to
support two full time employees.
Paul Kienzle
address@hidden
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