Re: Octave Forge: requesting SVN access

[Carnë Draug]

On 2 October 2014 07:17, Oliver Heimlich <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'd like to add a new package to the repository and hereby ask for SVN
> access. My sourceforge user name is oheim.
>
> The package shall implement the upcoming IEEE 1788 standard on interval
> arithmetic. I am a member of the P1788 working group and the standard
> currently enters the sponsor ballot phase.
>
> My GNU octave package is in an early stage atm, but I could already
> submit some functionality to the public repository under GPL.

We can certainly distribute this as an Octave Forge package, but we no
longer use subversion.  We have moved to have individual mercurial or
git repositories, one for each package.  Aside old packages that are no
longer maintained, our subversion repository is mostly empty.

I can create a repository where you can push to, would you prefer
mercurial or git?  In Octave, we have a preference for mercurial.

On 2 October 2014 19:51, Oliver Heimlich <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Please find attached a current development version of the code. A lot of
> functionality is still missing (I have been working on this during spare
> time for only a few days by now). Feedback is highly appreciated,
> because this is my first project in GNU Octave.
>
> The package comprises only M-files and depends on the package fenv.

There is a problem with this because the fenv package has been
unmaintained for too long and is no longer an Octave Forge package.
Yes, we still have the tarball (there was only one release) available
for download on the archives, but it does not appear listed [1] and pkg's
"-forge" flag will no longer install it.

I just gave the package a try and builds fine.  If it had a test suite
we could at least know if it's still working properly but as it is, I'd
guess no since its release was in 2008 and Octave has changed a lot since
then.

Carnë

[1] http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php