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

[Keith Goodman]

On 2/28/06, Quentin Spencer <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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

Debian etch, which is targeted to become stable in December, contains QT4.1.