Re: New optics functions, was: Re: Contributing to octave-forge

[Martin Vogel]

Am 18.01.2014 03:18, schrieb Carnë Draug:
> On 16 January 2014 17:48, Martin Vogel <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Dear Octavists,
>>
>> it took me a while to get going, but now, I just submitted the promised
>> functions for optical calculations following the Mueller-Stokes and
>> Jones formalism:
>>
>> https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/index.php?8278
>>
>> All three subdirectories of "inst/" must be on the path, then "demo
>> mueller_stokes" or "demo jones" will give you some demonstration what
>> the library is about. Further information can be found in Wikipedia,
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_calculus
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes_vectors
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_calculus
>>
>> I tried my best to have each function with its own documentation.
>> As I plan to add further library functions (more elements, a different
>> section for paraxial calculations using the famous ABCD-matrices, ...),
>> the submitted code may serve as a nucleus to a new package "optics".
>>
>> I'd be happy to help as its maintainer, if there is a need for that job,
>> but I'd need some initial help to set it up as such...
>>
>> Thank you all for an excellent job providing us with Octave,
>>
>> Martin
> 
> Hi Martin
> 
> I have created a repository with the basic structure for your package
> [1]. I will need your sourceforge username to give you permissions to
> push into it (or you can host it somewhere else and we can pull from
> there). Until them, you can already pull it and commit your functions
> (please follow the commit message guidelines [2]).
> 
> Carnë
> 
> [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/optics/
> [2] http://wiki.octave.org/Commit_message_guidelines
> 

Hi Carnë,

thank you, just sent my username by PM.

One more question: The canonical place to add directories upon package
installation to the path is the PKG_ADD file, right? Or is there some
automation built into the common Makefiles?

Martin