Re: Octave-Forge website / docs.html

[Julien Bect]

Le 13/08/2014 12:46, c. a écrit :
> the list used internally by pkg.m is here:
>
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/list_packages.php
>
> be aware that this is not a static text file it is generated
> by a server-side script by iterating over all directories containing
> html docs.

It seems a little unnatural to me to require that the whole OF website 
has been built to be able to get something as "primitive" as the list of 
all Octave packages...

Especially since I'm looking for a way to _build_ the website... If the 
website is lost, then I cannot get the package list... so how I can I 
rebuild the website ?

It would make more sense to me to have a STATIC list of packages 
somewhere (perhaps on a Mercurial repo on SF, together with all the 
other admin scripts that are used to build the website ?) that could be 
used to build the website, and also uploaded as 
octave.sourceforge.net/list_packages.txt (for instance) for use from pkg.

Does that make sense to you ?