Re: qrupdate - advice sought

[Thomas Weber]

Am Freitag, den 09.01.2009, 14:17 +0100 schrieb Jaroslav Hajek:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Thomas Weber
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Am Freitag, den 09.01.2009, 13:00 +0100 schrieb Soren Hauberg:
> >> fre, 09 01 2009 kl. 12:40 +0100, skrev Jaroslav Hajek:
> >> > I would like Octave to take advantage of these improvements.
> >> > Subsequently, I want to use them to further improve fsolve, lsqnonneg,
> >> > and possibly (in less immediate future) implement other optimization
> >> > routines that can benefit.
> >> >
> >> > Now, what is the best way to proceed?
> >> >
> >> > 1. Refresh and keep maintaining a copy of qrupdate under libcruft/ in 
> >> > Octave.
> >> > 2. Remove libcruft/qrupdate and require qrupdate to be linked.
> >> >
> >> > 1 is simpler. If we strive to get rid of some or all of libcruft
> >> > eventually, then maybe 2 is better, but it will make another (weak)
> >> > dependency.
> >>
> >> The problem with a library such as qrupdate is that no distributions are
> >> packing it at the moment. So, I'd say put it in libcruft for now, and
> >> remove it once distributions start packing it. Of course if nobody is
> >> packing it in a year, then I think we should remove it from libcruft to
> >> force distributions into packing it.
> >
> > The number of distributions that are keen on packaging Fortran libraries
> > is probably zero. Good luck in forcing them.
> >
> 
> Well I would consider using something like OpenSUSE build service and
> maintaining the package myself, since it's probably going to be little
> work. But as it seems nobody objects against carrying on the inclusion
> in libcruft, I'll probably take the least resistance route.

Hmm, if the library is useful for other stuff, I suggest giving
distributions a chance by releasing a tarball :)

First wishlist bug: please give a one-line summary of passed/failed
tests. This is probably difficult currently, as you don't know what
thresholds to chose, but that should become clear over time.

        Thomas