RE: octave forge Windows package maintainer

[JohnD]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of
> Carnë Draug
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 12:41 PM
> To: JohnD
> Cc: octave-maintainers
> Subject: Re: octave forge Windows package maintainer
> 
> 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

Thanks!