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Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages
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Carnë Draug |
Subject: |
Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Apr 2015 12:13:26 +0100 |
On 6 April 2015 at 23:31, John Donoghue <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 04/06/2015 06:16 PM, address@hidden wrote:
>>
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 21:17:38 +0100
>> From: Carn? Draug<address@hidden>
>> To: Mike Miller<address@hidden>
>> Cc: Octave Maintainers<address@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages
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>> <address@hidden>
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>> On 15 March 2015 at 15:04, Mike Miller<address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> >[...]
>>> >
>>> >The imminent Octave 4.0.0 release will be the first to supply an
>>> >official binary distribution of Octave for Windows operating systems.
>>> >This distribution will include a set of Octave Forge packages that may
>>> >be installed at the user's option. This is why we would like to have
>>> >compatible packages ready to incorporate into the next release candidate
>>> >for further testing.
>>> >
>>
>> Can users that have installed Octave with such installer then install
>> more packages and other versions of those packages?
>>
>> If we are starting to distribute binaries of Octave core, would be nice
>> if we can also distribute binaries for the packages, specially since the
>> release cycle of core and OF is quite different.
>>
>> Carn?
>>
>
> Currently I think cross compiled binaries for mxe-octave is still a work in
> progress so may not make the initial 4.0 release.
I thought that was one of the main targets for the 4.0.0 release.
> Currently, all it does at the moment is compile the sources in the src
> directory and tars it all back up for pkg install to then run in the native
> machine.
>
> So would/should pkg install somehow look on octave forge for a binary
> package and fall back to sources if it couldnt find it?
Yes, that would be nice, kinda like python wheels. But we don't really have
the infrastucture to setup something like that.
Carnë
- Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, (continued)
- Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, JohnD, 2015/04/06
- Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, Philip Nienhuis, 2015/04/06
- Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, Carnë Draug, 2015/04/06
- Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, Philip Nienhuis, 2015/04/07
- Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, Mike Miller, 2015/04/07
- Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, Philip Nienhuis, 2015/04/07
- Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, Daniel Kraft, 2015/04/08
- Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, Carnë Draug, 2015/04/13
Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, Carnë Draug, 2015/04/06
Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, John Donoghue, 2015/04/06
- Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages,
Carnë Draug <=
- RE: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, JohnD, 2015/04/10
- Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, Oliver Heimlich, 2015/04/10
- Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, Mike Miller, 2015/04/10
- Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, Oliver Heimlich, 2015/04/11
- Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, Oliver Heimlich, 2015/04/11
- Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, Lukas Reichlin, 2015/04/11
- Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, Carnë Draug, 2015/04/13
Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, Tatsuro MATSUOKA, 2015/04/10
Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, Julien Bect, 2015/04/11
Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages, Julien Bect, 2015/04/11