Re: Octave v4.4 in PPA

[Richard Crozier]

On 30/05/18 17:12, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 09:07:32 +0100, Richard Crozier wrote:
>
> It cannot access system libraries installed in /usr or /usr/local by
> design, but it can access anything in your home directory.
>
> I'm not entirely sure if the Flatpak developers have a plan to deal with
> applications that are extendable or pluggable requiring additional
> libraries.


Thanks for the info, this could be a bit of a problem for me (and my 
users). As an example I have developed an interface to the MBDyn 
multibody dynamics package (the interface is available on sourceforge if 
anyone's interested). This is based on a mex files which must link to 
the installed mbdyn libraries. I also have other interfaces to things 
like gsl etc. I guess it's something to ask the Flatpak developers. Will 
things like the octave netcdf package work, since it requires to link 
with the local netcdf libraries? I imagine quite a few packages could 
have problems with this?


> Network sockets are shared with the host so Octave can communicate with
> native local services and applications.

ok thanks

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