RE: Interested in maintaining the gsl package.

[Steven Wasserbaech]

Hello and thank you for your reply.  I apologize for my slow response.

I'm not really having an issue with gsl.  I found some instructions online and 
I managed to make gsl work with Octave 3.6.2.  I'm not sure whether it could 
work with Octave 4.  I feel it is a kind of moral imperative that these 
functions be conveniently available in Octave, so I think gsl needs to be a 
maintained package that can be installed effortlessly.

I will try to use your first suggested method of working, and I'll let you know 
if I have trouble.  Are you aware of any particular issues that need to be 
fixed before gsl can run with Octave 4 and be an "official" package?  Thank you.

Sincerely,
Steve


-----Original Message-----
Hi Steven

You're welcome to help and take maintenance of the gsl package.  We can help 
and give some orientation but we need a specific question.  Can you be more 
specific on what issue you have at the moment?

Ideally, you would clone the mercurial repository of the gsl package [1], make 
some local commits (csets) with your changes, and push them to some public 
repo.  This would allow us to review your changes and pull them into the 
official repository.  Alternatively, you can export your csets into files 
(imagine patch files signed your named, date, and a commit message) to the bug 
tracker for review and manual import by Octave Forge developers.

It may be worth to come to #octave at irc.freenode.net.

Carnë

[1] http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/gsl
[2] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave