Re: Alternative to Source Forge for Octave Packages (Was : Re: pdepe)

[Nikola Yuroukov]

Hello,

I looked at BitBucket this morning and it seems to me that they have support for Git and Mercurial and nothing else. Also they seem to want money for more than 5 users in a project. What do you think about that?

Regards,

Nikola

On 30 May 2016 at 16:37, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Carlo De Falco <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 29 May 2016, at 17:56, Carlo De Falco <address@hidden> wrote:
>> ... I have been
>> looking into the possibility of setting up a package distribution
>> system alternative (or complementary) to OctaveForge or Agora, based
>> on the example of Julia's package repository: http://pkg.julialang.org/
>>
>> I think most of the features of that system are fairly easy to get,
>> but I was stuck thinking at how to get the automatic test system working
>> without security issues ...
>
> On 29 May 2016, at 18:04, Nikola Yuroukov <address@hidden> wrote:
>> What security issues do you anticipate with the automatic test system?
>
> Carlo de Falco-2 wrote
>> Essentially each package is an indepentent project on GitHub.
>>
>> Whatever is in the project's release page is listed as the package
>> release on pkg.julialang.org.
>>
>> If whatever is there is downloaded built and run for testing,
>> how can you prevent dangerous code from being run?
>
> On 29 May 2016, at 21:13, Sebastian Schöps <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I suggested exactly this idea at octconf based on my experience with
>> homebrew but people did not like it.... no real releases, not free enough
>> etc.
>
> I believe an aggregator such as that used in http://pkg.julialang.org/ would overcome
> most of those objections, also I was thinking about using BitBucket instead of GitHUB
> to leave more choices in terms of VCS to package developrs.
>
> Anyway, feedback from others on the list would be appreciaed on this topic so I'm moving
> this discussion to a different thread.
>
> c.
>
>

Carlo, what is the status of this? Let me know if I can help.