Re: octave forge Windows package maintainer

[Carnë Draug]

On 24 February 2016 at 14:29, JohnD <address@hidden> wrote:
> I’ve been playing around with some of the packages in Windows, and noticed
> the Windows package hasn’t been officially released since 2013, doesn’t
> compile from the source forge release without patching (currently done in
> mxe-octave), and looks like the svn repo for it hasn’t been updated since
> 2013 either.
>
> Since I have been playing around with the mxe-octave code for a while now,
> I’m willing to become the maintainer of the Windows package if needed J, so
> can I get access to the repo? I would prefer to have it made into a separate
> repo rather than the big SVN one – not sure what that entails.
>
> Current plans would be to at least get it to a non patch required release –
> hopefully with a few tests added to verify it works
>

I have created an individual mercurial repository for the windows and
exported to it all of its history.

    http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/windows

You're welcome to take up its maintenance.  I gave you push permissions
to Octave Forge with the creation of the zeromq package so you should
not have problems pushing to windows either.

Carnë