Re: packaging system

[Søren Hauberg]

Stefan van der Walt wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 12:26:14PM +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> > Introducing a toolbox field in DESCRIPTION doesn't make sense to as the 
> > package would then need to know which packages depends  on it.
>
> Why?  There are a set set of toolboxes.  Your package must just know
> to which toolbox it contributes?  The problem that we were discussing
> earlier, is what happens when your package contributes to more than
> one toolbox.
If I write a package and someone else desides to create another package 
that uses my packagee, how would I know?

> Anyway, I don't see it being a major hassle: include an INDEX file
> with each package, and let Octave parse those index files whenever
> someone wants help('toolbox').  We have the code to do so already.
I guess we can do that - I just don't see why. All the functions in a 
package can be found in a seperate directory, so we have the information 
the INDEX file would contain available. Or, are you suggesting that the 
INDEX file also would include the functions from the dependend packages?

/Søren
> Regards
> Stéfan