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Re: packaging system
From: |
Stefan van der Walt |
Subject: |
Re: packaging system |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:20:18 +0200 |
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On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:03:03PM -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> Hmm. It does to me. If we implement dependencies in the package
> system, then there is nothing preventing you from installing a package
> that doesn't actually have any files of its own, but depends on
> several other packages. If you'd like, you can call your
> dependency-only package a "toolbox". I see no reason to complicate
> things by introducing the concept of a "toolbox" as something that is
> somehow different from a "package". It seems to me that both are just
> collections of functions.
Here's a scenario: I have a group of signal processing functions that
are not yet included in Octave. Since the signal processing package
already exists, what do I call this?
How about a toolbox field in the package description then?
Regards
Stefan
- Re: packaging system, (continued)
- Re: packaging system, Stefan van der Walt, 2005/06/18
- Re: packaging system, Søren Hauberg, 2005/06/18
- Re: packaging system, Stefan van der Walt, 2005/06/18
- Re: packaging system, Søren Hauberg, 2005/06/18
- Re: packaging system, Søren Hauberg, 2005/06/18
- Re: packaging system, Stefan van der Walt, 2005/06/18
- Re: packaging system, Søren Hauberg, 2005/06/18
- Re: packaging system, John W. Eaton, 2005/06/18
- Re: packaging system, Stefan van der Walt, 2005/06/18
- Re: packaging system, John W. Eaton, 2005/06/18
- Re: packaging system,
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- Re: packaging system, Stefan van der Walt, 2005/06/19
- Re: packaging system, Søren Hauberg, 2005/06/19
- Re: packaging system, Stefan van der Walt, 2005/06/19
- Re: packaging system, Bill Denney, 2005/06/19
- Re: packaging system, Stefan van der Walt, 2005/06/20
- Re: packaging system, Søren Hauberg, 2005/06/20
- Re: packaging system, Stefan van der Walt, 2005/06/20
- Re: packaging system, Paul Kienzle, 2005/06/20
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