Re: [gentoo-science] octave forge

[Markus Dittrich]

Juan Aguado <juantxorena@×××××.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Bug #179885 [1] is the tracker for the octave forge split ebuilds. I
> attached to it some ebuilds, nearly all of the remaining packages, but
> nobody seems to care, despite being a blocker for gcc-4.3 stabilization
> and with an ancient octave-forge in portage that doesn't work with the
> non-ancient octave-3*.
>
> Pinging markusle aside, there are a lot of forge packages that shouldn't
> monopolize the sci-mathematics category, so something must be made.
> Possible solutions:
>
> 1.- Do nothing, thats not a problem.
> 2.- Create a new category à la dev-texlive, something like sci-octave.
> 3.- Create a g-cpan-like program for this, preferably faster than the
> unexistent cran one.
>
> My vote is for option 2. Comments?
>
> Juan
>
>
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179885


Hi Juan,

Thanks much for your message and all your hard work. We had a long time
ago agreed to go with 3., simply because of the fact that the
octave-forge.eclass does most of the work at this point and there is hence
no good reason to add a new category to the portage tree which contains many 
tens of split octave-forge ebuilds that by themselves simply call the eclass 
and hence don't do anything but waste space.

That said, we need somebody to spearhead the effort in writing g-octave.
Unfortunately, this can not be me since I am currently simply too busy at
work and otherwise. Maybe we could use this as an opportunity to get
things started. We need one or two people that feel comfortable to take
a stab a g-octave (based on g-cpan maybe) and write a first prototype.
Any volunteers?

Best,
Markus


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Markus Dittrich (markusle)
Gentoo Linux Developer
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