Re: New package repo request - raspi

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

On 12/1/20 3:35 AM, JohnD wrote:
> > From: John W. Eaton [mailto:jwe@octave.org]
> > Sent: Monday, November 30, 2020 11:45 AM
> >
> > On 11/30/20 1:03 AM, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
> >
> > > If you want to opt-in for inclusion of your package into the MS Windows
> > > installer, for example, this is independent of being an Octave Forge
> > > package and has to be negotiated with the MXE-Octave (MS Windows
> > > installer) team.
> >
> > Kai, unless I'm confusing identities here, JohnD does the majority of
> > the work on mxe-octave so I guess the discussion would be internal.  :-)

JohnD (lostbard) sorry for the identity confusion *oops*.

> > JohnD, yes, we are looking at moving more toward being an aggregator of
> > package info rather than directly hosting package development and
> > blessing and releasing packages as a collection.  The idea is to lower
> > the barrier of entry for people to post their collections of functions
> > somewhere, and to eliminate the perception that the Octave developers
> > are somehow responsible for tracking bugs and maintaining all the
> > contributed packages.
> >
> > (Please correct me if this statement doesn't accurately represent the
> > conclusions of our recent meeting.)
> >
> > jwe


There is nothing to add to your statement.


> Yeah I wasn’t too concerned of whether I would be able to get in mxe :)
>
> I created a project and pushed the code to source forge and will be finishing 
> it up soon
>
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/octave-raspberrypi/code/ci/default/tree/
>   


On 11/30/20 11:13 PM, JohnD wrote:
>
> I can become an admin if needed and help out. Before now, I haven't 
really asked to be since I think I may be the user releasing the most 
packages so it has kind of been a conflict of interests in terms of a 
reviewing something that I prepared.


The power is yours.  Sure we had already some releases together as 
lostbard *oops again* and we can keep continuing this procedure.  Just 
adding new packages is beyond the time I want to devote to this project.


> Im ok with octave forge slowly going away however it would be nice if 
pkg command worked with the index without the need to specify the whole 
url so make it easier to work with packages.
>
> ie: I know if want to install the image package, so I have to go to 
the index, search for the package, copy the url and paste it into a 
octave pkg command, rather than pkg install image


Exactly this is my project for probably end of December / next year.


> Also, if moving away from octave-forge, perhaps the octave-forge 
pages should show a link to the index.


I prefer to do this step next year, if it is more apparent that nobody 
really cares for Octave Forge anymore.

Kai