Re: Octave Forge -- Looking for a new leader

[Nir Krakauer]

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 10:56 AM, c. <address@hidden> wrote:

On 8 Jan 2017, at 16:42, c. <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On 8 Jan 2017, at 16:29, Nir Krakauer <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Even if we do that, we should have a specification, so that the linked packages are in a reasonably standard and usable format.
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> There used to be a very good specification on this page:
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> https://octave.sourceforge.io/developers.html
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> but I see it was removed...
> maybe I can recover an old version of that page, but maybe it was just moved on the wiki somewhere?
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> c.

What would be needed in addition to this section of the manual?
https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Creating-Packages.html#Creating-Packages

c.

That looks fine. "Making a package release" could be updated to point to examples of makefiles that encapsulate the required steps.

Then we should let "pkg -forge install" follow the link to download the package from its site?