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Re: Package system
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: Package system |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:20:58 -0400 |
On 21-Oct-2005, Søren Hauberg wrote:
| > * I recently modified rmdir to accept an optional second argument
| > ("s") which if present tells rmdir to work recursively (this
| > choice was for compatibility; I guess the "s" means
| > "subdirectories too"), so we shouldn't need the rm_rf.m file.
| Okay. I'm using 2.9.3 and would prefer not working on CVS version as a have
| to do "real work" too. I'm guessing CVS is too unstable for that, right?
I hope to make a new snapshot soon.
| I'd be happy to this (writing untar was dead easy), but I just have two
| questions:
| 1) Could we change split to return a cell array instead of an array?
| This would IMHO be a good thing anyway, and would make untar work
| without a lot of hassle.
Yes, I think it would be better to return a cell. But how much code
might that break? Should we just do it anyway?
| There's a patch for this somewhere on the bugs list.
I don't see the patch, so if you could find it that would help.
| 2) Is the approach taking in untar acceptable? It's basicly just a
| system call, but that's not going to be portable (I'm thinking about
| windows here).
It's not really a problem if Octave is running under Cygwin (one of
the big advantages Cygwin provides is a useful POSIX environment).
But yes, it would be a problem for Octave running on Windows without
Cygwin. But I don't think it makes sense to try to duplicate the
functionality of things like tar, gzip, or zip inside of Octave. So
using system() is probably the best solution.
| I have just changed the syntax to one function called pkg that accepts
| -install, -uninstall, etc, as you described. Then get_unsatisfied_deps
| can become a function inside the pkg file.
OK.
Since Octave allows
x = pkg -list
I think we are OK with this change. OTOH, that kind of statement
always looks a little odd to me. OTTH, I suppose you can always write
x = pkg ("-list")
I'd like to include the package code with Octave. Is that OK with
you?
Thanks,
jwe
Re: Package system, Paul Kienzle, 2005/10/22