Re: Call for rpm/deb/binary packagers for Workshop

[Quentin Spencer]

Sebastien Loisel wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I know several of you are compiling Octave Workshop on various OS's. I 
> would really like it if those of you who know how to make rpms (and 
> debs and so on) contacted me. I would like you to put these binary 
> packages on the sourceforge web page.


I maintain octave, octave-forge and several related dependencies for 
Fedora Extras, so I have plenty of experience with rpm. It wouldn't be 
much trouble to create a spec file for octave-workshop, but my only 
concern is the dependency on Qt 4. It is not yet included in most of the 
Linux distributions, and I have no interest in maintaining Qt 4 just for 
the benefit of octave-workshop. How much does Workshop depend on Qt 4? 
Could it be backported to 3.x? Updating to version 4 could be a long way 
off for the more conservative distributions such as Debian.

-Quentin