[Pkg-octave-devel] SWIG

Thomas Weber thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Tue May 13 07:31:04 UTC 2008


Am Dienstag, den 13.05.2008, 09:04 +0200 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> * Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson <ojsbug at gmail.com> [2008-05-13 01:37]:
> 
> > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:50:24PM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > 
> > > That said, calling flags for the C++ compiler 'CFLAGS' is quite eh
> > > 'uncommon'. And frankly, people should stop hard-coding that stuff and
> > > ask octave-config for it. That's what the script is for.
> > 
> > Well, I don't think the programmers for ANN [1] were thinking about
> > octave when they made that library :-)
> > 
> > [1] http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mount/ANN/
> 
> In that case, it would be more appropriate to package libann separately for
> Debian. I could not find any ITP [1] or RFP [2] for it, though.
> 
> [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/being_packaged
> [2] http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/requested

The library's release cycle seems to be bumpy: two releases in 1998, two
in 2005 and one in 2006. The latest is the last release, so people might
think the code is abandoned.

No idea if that's true, though.

	Thomas




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