Re: [octave forge] new external package: matGeom

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

Hi Oliver,

Do not worry about delays.

I might be missing something, but I do not think I can set external
repos, or can I? Instructions somewhere?

Thanks

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 8:07 AM Oliver Heimlich <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 08.11.18 17:57, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am pinging this request.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 1:13 AM Juan Pablo Carbajal
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear OF leaders,
> >>
> >> I would like to submit my fork of matGeom[1] as a condidate for an
> >> External Package at OF.
> >> Geometry (a community package) extends the functionality of matGeom
> >> and provides several matlab compatible geometric functions.
> >> Without matGeom as a package discoverably by `pkg -forge`, the update
> >> of geometry becomes problematic for the user.
> >>
> >> This would also simplify the structure and reduce the size of the
> >> current geometry package[2,3] (an overall increase in
> >> maintainability).
> >>
> >> Thank you for your consideration.
> >>
> >> [1]: https://github.com/kakila/matGeom
> >> [2]: current development branch
> >> https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/geometry/ci/default/tree/ bookmark
> >> `release` (SF web doesn't support bookmakrs)
> >> [3]: simplified package
> >> https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/geometry/ci/default/tree/ bookmark
> >> `matgeom_separation` (SF web doesn't support bookmakrs)
>
> Hi Juan,
>
> I think that this is a good solution to the maintainability problem you
> described earlier on this list.
>
> Please go ahead, we can add matGeom as an external package.
>
> Best Oliver
>
> P.S. Sorry for my late response. I had a lot of personal stuff going on
> in my free time lately, leaving less time for Octave.
>