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RE: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages
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Søren Hauberg |
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RE: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:05:03 -0700 |
man, 07 06 2010 kl. 08:20 -0400, skrev Jake:
> So there's still some manual work involved then. I was envisioning
> something more like apt-get on Ubuntu, where it would tell you what main
> packages it was going to install, the dependencies it also needs to install,
> and finally prompt you to make sure that it's okay to install all of them.
> I really don't see a point to this unless it does take care of the
> dependencies since pkg install will fail without those dependencies.
>
> I hadn't gotten a chance to implement my idea, but it was like this:
>
> 1. There would be a package list containing package names, dependencies and
> download URLs in the form of a struct array stored in a .mat file on one of
> the Octave servers. That way it could be loaded easily with no parsing
> involved. This file would be downloaded and loaded first.
This is *not* an option.
Whatever information you want to store about packages on the
Octave-Forge server should be stored on a package by package basis.
The scheme you suggest would require that one file contains information
about all packages. Maintaining this file will be a nightmare as
somebody will have to manually update it every time a package is
released.
Why not just put the DESCRIPTION files of all packages on-line, e.g.
http://octave.sf.net/image/DESCRIPTION
? We already have a parser for such files...
Soren
- Re: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages, (continued)
RE: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages, Jake, 2010/06/07
RE: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages, Jake, 2010/06/07
- Re: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages, Jaroslav Hajek, 2010/06/07
- RE: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages, Jake, 2010/06/07
- Re: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages, Jaroslav Hajek, 2010/06/07
- RE: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages, Jake, 2010/06/07
- RE: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages, John W. Eaton, 2010/06/07
- RE: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages, Jake, 2010/06/07
RE: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages,
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