Re: [octave forge] new external package

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 7:32 PM, Julien Bect
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Le 20/08/2017 à 23:21, JuanPi a écrit :
>>
>> I want to contribute the gpml (Gaussian Processes for Machine
>> Learning) package to the octave ecosystem.
>> I keep a repository here[1], which is a snapshot of the released version
>> [2].
>>
>> Since the original developer contributed (and might do it in the
>> future), I keep the structure of the original code, but provide an
>> extra folder 'pkg_octave' with files used by 'Makefile' to generate
>> the package, i.e. only the result of 'make release' has the octave
>> forge package structure.
>>
>> I am still struggling to converge to a method to include test and
>> demos and to improve the documentation. Oliver has gave me some nice
>> clues, but any suggestion is welcome. See [3] for the mailing list
>> thread.
>>
>> In [4] you will find a file that should be installable using 'pkg
>> install gpml-4.0.0'
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> JPi
>>
>> [1]: https://bitbucket.org/KaKiLa/gpml
>> [2]: http://gaussianprocess.org/gpml/
>> [3]:
>> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/OF-Docs-Demos-and-Test-for-External-package-td4681888.html
>> [4]:https://bitbucket.org/KaKiLa/gpml/downloads/gpml-4.0.0.tar.gz
>
>
> Hi JPi,
>
> Cool.  Having GPML readily available in Octave would be nice.  A few ideas /
> remarks :
>
> * I wouldn't block the release for problems related to tests / demos / etc.
> You can improve these aspects later.
>
> * Is startup.m (at the root) needed in the octave package ?  If not, I would
> remove it.  If yes, perhaps rename it to a less generic name ?
>
> * The developper manual should be in /doc, not inst/doc, I think.
>
> * The m-files that only provide documentation (such as meanFunctions.m,
> covFunctions.m...) could perhaps be renamed with a "gpml_" prefix.  This
> would make them much easier to find using completion.
>
> * Same remark for demoClassificaton, usagePrior, etc.
>
> * inst/doc/changelog -> ChangeLog (at the root) ?
>
> @++
> Julien
>
>

Hi Julien,
Thanks for the feedback. I will implement your suggestions.

How should I proceed with the release? Shall I upload code and html to
the sf as we do with community packages?