Re: Octave 2.9.0 available for ftp

[Quentin Spencer]

David Bateman wrote:

> On another point I can't see a UMFPACK rpm anywhere, and so if there 
> is someone who won't to make such a package, I'm sure there'll be lots 
> of octave users that would be very happy.

I'm intending to try packaging it, but it won't be right away. The 
Fedora distribution now has an official Fedora Extras. I have 
volunteered to maintain octave-forge and some of its dependencies. It 
looks like in order to cut down the number of CDs in the base 
distribution, they have removed octave, blas, and lapack from the base 
distribution for test release 1 of Fedora Core 4 (released yesterday). I 
am willing to take over maintainership of those as well, if they'll let 
me. If that happens, I'll ensure that FFTW is standard (it wasn't 
before), and eventually I'll add ATLAS (it's a trickier packaging 
problem). The delay right now is due to the fact that they are very slow 
about allowing new developers into their "trusted" circle, and they have 
been very vague about what you need to do to convince them. When I 
finally get the packages into Fedora Extras that I want, it should be as 
easy as on Debian to install octave and everything related.

-Quentin