[Pkg-octave-devel] Filing ITPs for the octave-forge pkgs

[Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:25:00PM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote:
> On 27/02/08 17:22 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > As soon as the preliminary tests with octave-pkg-dev for building
> > octave-forge packages will be done, I will file ITP bug reports.  I would
> > like to know what you think about two things:
> > 
> > First, is the name "octave-pkg-dev" appropriate?  If you dislike this name
> > and have a better proposal, say it now or never.
> > 
> > Second, would it be okay to file ITPs for all available octave-forge
> > packages? I think this should be okay. There are obvious exceptions like
> > octave-forge-bundle, windows, arpack, and spline-gcvspl.  I wrote a script
> > (now in SVN) to automate the task.
> 
> Just to be clear on this:
> 
> 1.) I don't know Perl and don't intend to learn it. It feels strange to me
> that we need a scripting language in order to provide packages for a
> different scripting language (what would you think if the Perl group used
> Python for their scripts?).
> 
> 2.) get-oct-pkg-src.pl has 45 lines of Perl code in order to download a
> package. The very first line of that code is already a mystery to me. Octave's watch file has 2 lines, one being the watch file's version.
> 
> 3.) octave-pkg-dev.mk.in has about 30 lines of code. I believe this means we
> are stretching the *C* in CDBS (that actually stands for "common") quite a bit.
> 
> 
> With that said, I'm fine with the current setup. Just don't expect me to ever
> touch it -- I simply don't understand it.

Yes, I partly agree with you there, the perl scripts are cryptic but I
am willing to learn them and follow up on this matter provided that I
have the patience to do so :-) (at the moment I don't have to much
time for this, trying to get some paperwork done for my offline world).

I say this is fine as long as we get someone (I am willing, but it
will take time and I will need help from you Rafael) to take care of
this in the future.

Cheers

Oli