Re: New package

[Colin Macdonald]

On 2017-09-25 02:43 PM, Felix Aparicio Perez wrote:
> if there is some simple way to make an Octave package work in Matlab 
> (a package like mine, that only has m-file scripts and that has been 
> designed to work with both Matlab and Octave). Perhaps you have some 
> suggestions and/or know of some people who have managed to distribute 
> their work for both Octave and Matlab in some way that I have not 
> thought of.

Hi Felix,

I think quite a few Octave packages support Matlab as well (this came up 
in a recent thread on this maillist, with a focus on writing 
Matlab-compatible code).

Regarding the Symbolic package and the Doctest package, I use a Makefile 
(the "Maintainers Makefile", due to Oliver Heimlich and others).  This 
generates the .tar.gz file for Octave Forge and another .zip file for 
Matlab.  Some special processing is done for Matlab (converting texinfo 
docs and extracting tests).

I'm not very good with Makefiles but I feel this effort was worth it: it 
means other Octave devs can reproduce my .tar.gz files and decreases the 
"bus factor".  It also means I have less "magic steps" to 
remember/follow when I do a new release.

Colin