Re: How to build a package

[Oliver Heimlich]

On 15.04.2015 21:25, Rafael Gonzalez wrote:
> Is there documentation to know the process of building a package for
> octave? And once it is done how can it be distributed with octave like
> the telecommunications package for example?
>
> I saw there is an optics package but I think it can be improved. Maybe
> making wrapping functions in octave for the goptical project could
> improve this package. Is there any restriction using other GNU projects
> in octave?

Rafael,

please find general instructions for making a package for GNU Octave [1] 
and making a package release for Octave Forge packages (like optics) [2].

The Octave Forge packages can be installed from within GNU Octave using 
the “pkg -forge” command. A selected set of packages is going to be 
distributed together with the upcoming Windows binary release.

The goptical library is licensed unter the GPLv2+. It would be possible 
that you use this library within oct-files [3] of a package if you plan 
to release your package unter the GPL (the optics package already has 
this license).

Since most GNU software is distributed under GPL (or compatible) 
license, you can probably use them easily.

Oliver

[1] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Creating-Packages.html#Creating-Packages
[2] http://octave.sourceforge.net/developers.html
[3] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Oct_002dFiles.html#Oct_002dFiles