[Pkg-octave-devel] octave-quaternion: I would like to use the octonion facilities of qtfm.

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Hi,

It seems that you tried to file a bug report against the 
octave-quaternion package in Debian.  That apparently did not work since 
your message did not reach submit at bugs.debian.org.

At any rate, I guess that your bug report and proposal for contribution 
would be better suited for the Octave-Forge bug tracker :

http://octave.sourceforge.net/bugs.html

The Debian Octave Group is just a downstream packager of the quaternion 
module of the Octave-Forge suit.

Best regards,

Rafael Laboissiere

* Wolfgang Rosner <wrosner at tirnet.de> [2014-12-13 02:04]:

> Subject: octave-quaternion:
> I would like to use the octonion facilities of qtfm. 
> Package: octave-quaternion 
> Version: 2.2.2 
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Looking for a octonion implementation on GNU octave on wheezy, I tried both 
> stable and backport versions of octave with source downloads of 
> qtfm_2_1.zip . 
> Neither was able to run qtfm as provided from sourceforge, although there is a 
> set_octave_path.m included.
>
> examples of errors are:
>
> octave:14> qtfm_test 
> error: sq_string cannot be indexed with . 
> error: evaluating argument list element number 1 
> error: called from: 
> error:   /home/wrosner/test/qtfm/@quaternion/isempty.m at line 14, column 4
>
>
> octave:14> x = quaternion (1,2,3,4) 
> parse error near line 8 of 
> file /home/wrosner/test/qtfm/@quaternion/quaternion.m
>
>  syntax error
>
>>>> classdef quaternion
>            ^
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> Then I tried octave-quaternion (2.0.0-1) from wheezy(stable). 
> test_quaternion.m ran fine, but it doesn't provide octonions.
>
> I had a look then at the GIT tree given here 
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-octave/octave-quaternion.git/tree/inst 
> to learn that octonions are still not implemented and that you did quite some 
> rewrite of the source. 
> Is this required for recent versions of octave?
>
> I really would like to get the current version of qtfm running under 
> debian/octave 
> Is this in the pipeline? 
> If not, I'd consider to give it a try and contribute, if you  like.
>
> What were your rataionale? 
> Are there some scripts to ease the job? 
> Are you interested in the result? 
> What were the steps required to contribute?
>
> Sincerely 
> Wolfgang Rosner
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> -- System Information: 
> Debian Release: 7.4 
>  APT prefers stable-updates 
>  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') 
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages octave-quaternion depends on: 
> ii  libc6       2.13-38+deb7u1 
> ii  libgcc1     1:4.7.2-5 
> ii  liboctave1  3.6.2-5+deb7u1 
> ii  libstdc++6  4.7.2-5 
> ii  octave      3.6.2-5+deb7u1
>
> octave-quaternion recommends no packages.
>
> octave-quaternion suggests no packages.
>
>
>
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