[Pkg-octave-devel] questions on packaging an octave toolbox

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Juan Pablo Carbajal <carbajal at ifi.uzh.ch> [2012-07-11 08:21]:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Jameson Graef Rollins
> <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 10 2012, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh at octave.org> wrote:
> >> On 10 July 2012 17:41, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> >>> I'm trying to figure out the "Right" way to package a binary octave
> >>> toolbox.
> >>
> >> Do you mean binary-only, no source?
> >>
> >> If so, there's no right way to do that, since that's a GPL violation
> >> if you distribute it.
> >
> > No no.  I just meant a package that provides binary oct files, instead
> > of architecture-independent .m scripts.  Obviously it would include a
> > regular Debian source package.
> >
> > jamie.
> >
> 
> Jameson,
> 
> Have you considered Octave Forge?
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/

I second Juan Pablo here.  You did not tell us much about your package,
but if it is of general interest to the Octave community, you should
consider contributing it to Octave Forge.  Once it is part of OF, it is
quite easy to build a package for it in Debian.

Rafael