Re: Package system

[Søren Hauberg]

Stefan,
I uploaded the most recent code about the same time I wrote the last
message, so if you got code from before that I'd recommend
re-downloading (don't think there's been many changes, but still).

And your question, ...
Well, the basic idea is that you inform the user that FFMpeg is needed
(there's a field in DESCRIPTION called SystemRequirements for this), but
the package system doesn't check it. So to check if FFMpeg is installed
you need some autoconfig magic. This kinda sucks, but checking if a
library is installed is hard, so I don't think octave should try to do
configure's job.

/Soren

P.S. This is the same way R does it

ons, 19 10 2005 kl. 23:42 +0200, skrev Stefan van der Walt:
> Soren,
> 
> I checked out the packaging system yesterday (I was looking into
> converting my FFMpeg-wrappers into an Octave-quaver or note or
> whatever we call it.. python has eggs, ruby has gems!).
> 
> Question: what is the status of the system dependencies flag?  For
> example, how would one go about requiring libgsl.so to be installed?
> 
> Regards
> Stéfan
> 
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 07:44:47PM +0200, Soren Hauberg wrote:
> > http://hauberg.org/octave-package/
>