Re: [OF geometry] un-syncable with upstreeam

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

Hi Julien,

I am not sure why we have not contemplated that option, I guess I
forgot about it.

I will check the developers page to set the external repo.

Thanks

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 9:47 AM Julien Bect
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Le 28/09/2018 à 01:12, Juan Pablo Carbajal a écrit :
> > Hi all again.
> >
> > Upstream matgeom has accepted my scripts to package to octave[1] and
> > they will host the files in their wiki[2].
> > The geometry package has been striped in the dev branch.
> >
> > The only part missing for the next release is to decide whether
> > geometry should also install matgeom or not.
> > It would be easy to package the octave package matgeom inside the
> > geometry package and then add a line to install it when geometry is
> > installed. Is this recommended? (I understood that some packages are
> > already doing this)
> > Should I just give enough information for people to download or build
> > the matgeom package by themselves? can I trigger such info when "pkg
> > install -forge geometry" fails to install due to missing matgeom?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > [1]: https://github.com/mattools/matGeom/pull/63
> > [2]: http://matgeom.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/MatGeom
>
>
> Hi JPi,
>
> Why not host the octave package on OF as an external package ?
>
> You would simply have a mercurial repo that is updated before each
> release with the result of your script (using, e.g., "hg addremove").
>
> This would make it possible for users to install matgeom using "pkg
> install -forge" as any other OF package.
>
> ?
>
> @++
> Julien
>
>