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Dear All, |
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The sci herd would like to propose the addition of a new |
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octave-forge.eclass as well as a new portage category |
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dev-octave to house new octave-forge ebuilds. |
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Background: |
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GNU octave [1] is a high level language and computing environment aimed |
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at numerical computations. octave-forge [2] provides a collection of |
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extensions for, e.g., image processing, bioinformatics, etc., to the octave |
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core package. In the past, the octave-forge package extending the octave-2* |
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core was a monolithic build and is currently available in portage as |
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sci-mathematics/octave-forge. For the newly released octave-3* core, |
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octave-forge has been split into a large number of individual packages, |
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each implementing a distinct functionality. In addition, the breath of the |
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new octave-forge packages has been greatly expanded. Currently, there are |
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more than 40 octave-forge-packages and the number is growing. |
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Current State of Affairs: |
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We have developed an octave-forge.eclass that handles the installation |
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of individual octave-forge packages as well as the management of the |
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octave core-owned package database. |
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Both the octave-forge.eclass [3] as well as the individual |
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octave-forge ebuilds [4] are currently maintained in the scientific overlay |
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and have been tested over the past couple of months. |
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Proposal: |
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We would like to propose two things: |
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1) Addition of the octave-forge.eclass [3] to the main portage tree. |
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The octave-forge.eclass in its current state provides a wrapper |
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around the package install functionality of the octave core. |
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It uses octave core's "pkg" command for compilation and |
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installation inside the sandbox and adds functionality |
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to maintain the octave core database file of installed octave-forge |
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packages. It is available for review at [3] (due to its length I didn't |
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want to attach it to the post). |
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2) Addition of the individual octave-forge packages into a new |
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category, dev-octave |
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In principle, the octave-forge packages could be added to sci-mathematics. |
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However, since we are already at > 40 packages with more to come in |
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the future it seems that creating a completely new category dev-octave |
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would both be more appropriate and make things more manageable in the |
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future. |
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Any feedback regarding our proposal and improvements to the octave-forge.eclass |
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would be very welcome. |
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Thanks all for your time and reading through this long post. |
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Best regards, |
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Markus |
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[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ |
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[2] http://octave.sourceforge.net/ |
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[3] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/science/browser/overlay/eclass/octave-forge.eclass |
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[4] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/science/browser/overlay/sci-mathematics |
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Markus Dittrich (markusle) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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Scientific applications |
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