Re: Failure (Re: How to use octave-forge?)

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 12:46:41PM +0100, Christoph Dalitz wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:48:06 -0500
> Paul Kienzle <address@hidden> wrote:
> > If it is a lack of infrastructure, would it be reasonable to put 
> > together a
> > binary package like we have for Windows and distribute it from the
> > octave-forge site?  My inclination is to use the Ports install path, or
> > possibly opt/loctave.
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> > 
> I would suggest using EPM (http://www.easysw.com/epm/), which can create
> DEB-, RPM-, OSX- or whatever packages from a single *.list file.

It's a nice enough idea in theory, but in practice I suspect that it won't
be strong enough to deal reliably with library dependencies and pre/post
installation niceties. The .deb packages do more than just 'configure; make;
make install'.

That said, only experience can tell, and the cross-platform aspect is
intruiging. If someone wants to try it, go for it and I'll try to help where
I can based on the Debian experience.


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