[Pkg-octave-devel] Adding an Octave-dependent software into Debian

[Sébastien Villemot]

"John W. Eaton" <jwe at octave.org> a écrit :

> On 24-Feb-2009, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
>
> | As I told you, my current packaging builds MEX files for Matlab. This
> | is not desirable nor feasible for an official Debian package, because
> | of Matlab's license and also because autobuilding of the MEX files
> | requires Matlab, which is not an option for Debian buildd.
>
> Is there not a distribution of Dynare that contains only sources and
> no pre-built MEX files or other libraries?  If not, then why not
> create one?
>
> You can also build MEX files for Octave, thought the native .oct files
> are generally more efficient.

Hi,

Maybe my message was not clear. Dynare is already functional under  
Octave, since we can compile the MEX files thanks to the compatibility  
interface (converting the MEX to the native OCT would indeed be a good  
thing, if we find the time to do so). There still remain a few  
features which run under Matlab but not Octave, but this is far from  
rendering Dynare unusable/useless under Octave.

The official Debian package that I would like to create would  
therefore provide a fully-functional version of Dynare under Octave.  
However, I would like to also include in the package some additional  
helper scripts which would ease the installation/compilation for those  
wanting to run Dynare under Matlab. I was therefore wondering if such  
a thing was compatible with the policy and goals of the DOG.

Best,

Sébastien