Re: packaging system

[Søren Hauberg]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 15-Jun-2005, Søren Hauberg wrote:
>
> | I'm really no expert on the subject of packaging systems, but it seems 
> | to me that the largest problem with creating such systems, is to what 
> | extend dependencies should be handled.
>
> It would be good to have some dependency checking, but I'm not sure
> that it really matters too much until we also have a way to
> download and install packages from Octave (or using some other
> script).
The implementation I linked to in another post earlier today does 
depency checking at installation time. It will check if the needed 
packages (but not external libraries) are installed. However, I don't 
think dependency checking at uninstallation time will be implemented as 
it seems a bit harder (more book-keeping is necesary).

/Søren
> jwe