[Pkg-octave-devel] Dynare: git, matlab, testsuite

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2009-05-25 14:36]:

> I'll use the Git repository once you've created it.

I am preparing the repo as I write this lines.

> Learning Git is a good investment anyways.

Yes, definitely.  You will never want to come back to Subversion once you
will have learned Git.

>> Do the user need the whole Matlab installation for this step?
>
> My understanding is that the most basic installation of Matlab, without 
> any toolbox, is able to compile MEX files. It relies on gcc.

This is precisely my question: does it require more than just gcc, e.g. a
library provided by Matlab?  There is mex support in Octave and I am
wondering whether we could generate the binaries entirely in Debian.
 
-- 
Rafael