Re: packaging system

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-Jun-2005, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| Just to get things started I've created a quick-and-dirty 
| implementation, of a *simple* packaging system. The system is basicly 
| stolen from the R project, but the implementation is in the Octave 
| language. A bit more details and the code is at 
| http://hauberg.org/octave-package/

I looked at your sample package and installation script and here are
some comments.

  * I think the tar file should unpack into a single directory with
    the name PACKAGE-VERSION.  I'm always annoyed when I unpack a tar
    file and it dumps a bunch of files directly into my current
    directory.  Usually I check to see what will happen first with
    "tar tzf" but I sometimes forget)

  * The file COPYING should be the full text of the license, not just
    the text that goes at the head of each source file.

  * Should we also provide scripts for creating packages and verifying
    that they are complete?

Thanks,

jwe