[Neurodebian-devel] Packaging policy for MATLAB toolboxes

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 12:06 +0200, Michael Hanke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Ghislain Vaillant
> <ghisvail at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>         Hi everyone,
>         
>         I was looking for resources regarding Debian packaging of
>         MATLAB toolboxes. The only valuable material I found was this
>         wiki entry: http://neuro.debian.net/proj_matlab.html, which
>         acknowledges the need for integration of MATLAB software to
>         the Debian package tree, but does not provide particular
>         guidelines for doing so (yet ?).
>         
>         
>         I am currently packaging a library (ISMRMRD), which provides
>         MATLAB wrappers in the form of a couple of .m and a .jar. I
>         was wondering whether there is a policy somewhere which
>         dictates where these files should be installed. If not, do you
>         guys have recommendation regarding where to place these
>         files ?
>         
> 
> 
> I can't help with policy, but maybe convention. Here is a package that
> you could use as an example:
> 
> 
> http://neuro.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/s/spm8/
> 
> 
> 
> and its free components at
> 
> 
> http://neuro.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/spm8/
> 
> 
> 
> and here is one that ships octave and matlab support:
> 
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> http://neuro.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/p/psychtoolbox-3-nonfree/
> 
> http://neuro.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/psychtoolbox-3/
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> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> 
> Michael
>  
> 
> 
> -- 
> Michael Hanke
> http://mih.voxindeserto.de
> 
> 

I have had a look at the psychtoolbox and spm8 packages as suggested. It
seems that the convention is to place the architecture independent files
of the toolbox in /usr/share/matlab/site/m/$NAME and the compiled
binaries (mex files) in /usr/lib/matlab/$NAME.

Can anyone confirm please ?

Cheers,

Ghis 



Does it make sense ?