Forge-Maintainers: Makefile simplifies your life

[Oliver Heimlich]

I have created a Makefile [1], which automates some regular package 
maintenance tasks. The Makefile is quite generic, but I have made some 
assumptions. It should work well with other packages with minor or no 
adjustments.

I hope, it is useful for other package maintainers as well. Highlights:

make release: Does most of the steps from [2]. Example output:
…
c50bb698a690682fc6d209ebb982b857  interval-0.1.1.tar.gz
2e4d35a76bf7543ba7dc44c2e83db8be  interval-html.tar.gz
Upload @ https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/package-releases/new/
Execute: hg tag "release-0.1.1"

make check: Run all package tests (without installation in GNU Octave)

make run: Recompile any outdated OCT-files automatically and run GNU 
Octave in the inst directory for a quick evaluation of the package 
(without re-installation in GNU Octave, so this is really fast).

Oliver

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/interval/ci/default/tree/Makefile
[2] http://octave.sourceforge.net/developers.html