Re: [OF] package root level Makefile

[Andrew Janke]

On 1/28/20 2:10 PM, Olaf Till wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:07:22PM +0100, Matthias W. Klein wrote:
>> Dear Olaf,
>>
>> which is the most recent and recommended package root level Makefile? I
>> know of [1] and [2] (which are virtually identical); is there - by
>> chance - a different place with an even newer file?
>>
>> I would like to make sure to base some tests I plan, for the ocl package
>> repository re-arrangement, on the latest recommended Makefile. (I have
>> some ideas how to combine the maintenance targets of my existing
>> Makefile and the standard Makefile, based on 'addpath' and 'autoload'.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>> [1] https://octave.sourceforge.io/templates/Makefile
>>
>> [2]
>> https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/example-package/ci/default/tree/plain-package/Makefile
> 
> Hi Matt,
> 
> [1] (above) should be more or less up-to-date. People tend to adapt
> the Makefile or even use their own one (with the same targets,
> please). This one makes package installations in a separate tree, not
> messing up system-wide and per-user installations, but some people
> don't like that. And there are still problems with installations for
> different Octave versions, since pkg() seems unable to correctly
> handle them in the same local tree (but it can handle them in
> system-wide installations).
> 
> A further problem is with __run_test_suite__, which seems to be broken
> (for usage in the package Makefile) for recent Octave versions IIRR.
> 
> Olaf
> 

On this topic, I've forked the package build/doco-generation scripts and
created one that can extract Texinfo from classdef files, and creates
QHelp packages so your User Manual automatically shows up in the Octave
GUI's documentation browser. I'm curious to know if anyone else finds
this useful.

You can see it in Tablicious: https://github.com/apjanke/octave-tablicious.

Cheers,
Andrew

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