[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60048] [octave forge] (fuzzy-logic-toolkit) fails to install

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #60048 (project octave):

@Seamus:
> One solution is to "draw a line" between those packages that are maintained,
and those that are not.

This would indeed be great.  But who should draw this line and where?  Some
packages are still working with minor effort and patches (like
fuzzy-logic-toolkit) and some users are still running older versions of Octave
where the package installs seamlessly and they would be unhappy to find them
removed or deprecated.  Furthermore, the Octave package tool (pkg) is deeply
interlinked with the clumsy outdated Octave Forge infrastructure.  Making
changes to pkg as it is now would only affect new versions of Octave released
in probably next year.

> I have assumed that you are the maintainer of this project, and that you
have the authority to make the decisions I've recommended. If that's not the
case, could you please alert the responsible party(ies)?

True, I have some authority and would love to do many changes, but also my
time is limited.  The Octave Forge legacy code base is huge and catching up
there is far more than a rainy weekend project.  Moreover, there is no party
left to inform.  Most of the original Octave Forge maintainers jumped off the
project.  If you have any interest in making your ideas become reality, please
tell us where you want to start working on.


@Philip: If I understand the mxe build system right, the OF-packages are
patched without creating another release tarball again.  At least I do not
find any patched tarballs on my octave.space workers.

Then I am afraid the effort creating the patched archives compared to properly
apply those patches to the respective repos and make a maintenance release
might almost be equal 😓



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