Re: creating an entry for mptoolbox on octave-forge

[Pascal Dupuis]

- about the mptoolbox on sourceforge: it is an older version,
Matlab-centric. The author sent me his latest version. I solved a few
issues with respect to Octave and started working on it. So could you
please
1) create a "multi-precision" dir to host this toolbox
2) I'll do a "svn dump" and sent it to you in order to "seed" the
original content
3) tell me how I can create a local copy of this area only ?

While you're at it, I would like my "dataframe" package to be migrated
to the hg repository. Same game: create a dir, I'll sent a dump.

Regards

Pascal

2013/6/27 Carnë Draug <address@hidden>:
> On 27 June 2013 10:08, CdeMills <address@hidden> wrote:
>> would it be possible to create a new directory "mptoolbox" on octave-forge,
>> in the "extra" section ? The aim is to populate it with the actual content
>> of this toolbox, be able to share it, and polish some rough edges to make it
>> useable as an Octave-Forge package.
>
> As Carlo has already said, we are no longer starting more packages in
> the SVN repository. Instead, we have individual mercurial repos[1] for
> each package. I can create you one, no problems. But first:
>
> 1) I noticed that mptoolbox already has a sourceforge project[2]. If
> he has a repository, I could import it so you can keep the whole
> history rather than starting from a commit that simple adds all the
> files. But if he has a repository he doesn't have it public yet
> thought.
>
> 2) during OctConf this last couple of days, one of the things I
> suggested about porting packages to Octave, was that changes should be
> sent upstream so that their code works well in both Octave in Matlab.
> Then, rather than maintaining a port of the code with the files moved
> around to match the Octave package style, to maintain a clone of his
> repository, plus a script that moves the files from an upstream
> release into the correct structure.
>
> These are suggestions. I will create a mercurial repository named
> mptoolbox if you so want.
>
> Carnë
>
> [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/_list/hg
> [2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/mptoolbox