[Pkg-octave-devel] Octave Packaging help

[Oliver Heimlich]

On 16.10.2015 13:20, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> [With Cc to the mailing lists, this time.]
> 
> Hi Afif,
> 
> * Afif Elghraoui <afif at ghraoui.name> [2015-10-14 00:57]:
> 
>> I am thinking about packaging the COBRA toolbox [1] for Debian, but
>> I'm not really sure how the packaging works for something that isn't
>> from octave-forge.
> 
> Thanks for your interest in packaging the COBRA toolbox for Debian. You
> work will be welcome.

Hi Afif,

did you consider packaging it for Octave-Forge first and then start to
package for Debian? Does the toolbox actually run in Octave?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cobra-toolbox/K4a001d7dmY

There are these slides from OctConf 2015 on the package system in Octave:
http://wiki.octave.org/wiki/images/2/29/OctConf-2015-Octave-packages.pdf

Also you should read this to get a general understanding:
https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Packages.html

Best,
Oliver