Re: Removing packages from Octave Forge

[Julien Bect]

On 10/01/2014 11:09, Alexander Barth wrote:
> To improve code quality, I would rather suggest to ask the maintainers 
> (if they can be reached) to add a test script to their package which 
> verifies the functioning of the package as a whole (e.g. 
> test_<packagename>.m). This script could call for exemple the test 
> code the individual file with the test function but it would also 
> check if the functions work correctly together.  I can write such a 
> test script for mapping. If a package fails its test suite, then we 
> have, in my oppion, a more objective way to decide that this package 
> should be removed from the "official" list of packages.

I like this idea very much. I suggest to call the test function 
PKG_TEST, in the spirit of PKG_ADD and PKG_DEL, and to make it possible 
for package users to run the test suite using, for instance, "pkg test 
PackageName". Just my two cents.

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Julien