Re: Octave build dependencies wiki

[Carnë Draug]

On 23 December 2013 14:54, Reza Housseini <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 10:39 AM, CdeMills <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>> rezahousseini wrote
>> > @Pascal
>> >
>> > You are right we should probably split this up. Perhaps we decide first
>> > which information want to put in then collecting these informations.
>> >
>> > @Carnë
>> >
>> > I suggest to create a new page for each distribution "Building for
>> > <distribution name>
>> > ".
>> >
>> > @Andy
>> >
>> > I just collected the information for the ubuntu system, but as Pascal
>> > suggested we should probably have a list for each distribution.
>>
>> As we agree, and to keep the page ordered, I suggest to put at the
>> beginning
>> three (or maybe four) main targets:
>> 1) Building for linux system => this subpage should then be contain a few
>> big categories like f.i.
>> -Debian and derivatives (Ubuntu, Mint, ...)
>> -Redhat and derivatives (CentOS, Fedora)
>> -Gentoo and derivatives
>> -Slackware and derivatives (didn't follow them recently -- is this branch
>> stil alive  ?)
>> -Others (Arch, Linux from Scratch, ...)
>> 2) Building for MacOs X platform
>> 3) Building on Microsoft Windows Platform
>>   - Mingw
>>   - Cygwin
>> 4) Building on BSD platform
>>
>> Then the table with package name, package role, licence, and CVE concerns.
>> This is generic and should be kept at the first level.
>>
>> Reza, could you transfer the part about debian and Arch to some relevant
>> subpage ?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Pascal
>>
>
> Ok I moved the package names to [1]. Could you please provide additional
> package names for the other distributions (or anyone with this
> distribution). I also included a "Feauture" column in the main table to
> provide information about the features which depend on this library. I don't
> have much knowledge about this. Perhaps some of the devs have to put info in
> there.
>
>
> [1] http://wiki.octave.org/Building_for_Linux_systems

What? I don't see reasoning for this. This info is already on the
distribution specific page. This is an Octave wiki, pages about Linux
distributions will only have installation and building instructions.
Why are you listing dependencies on yet another page with building
instructions with distribution specific?

At the moment we have a list of Octave dependencies for Ubuntu in: 1)
Octave manual, 2)  Debian based systems, and 3) Debian section in th
Building for Linux systems. The reason for both 1 and 2 existing is
that 1 lists dependencies names while 2 lists instructions and package
names. But really, we don't need another one. Let's please work the
pages that already exist, and not create others that will just
increase the number of pages to maintain.

Carnë