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Subject: Re: octave-forge
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Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:29:48PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>> Dear Maho,
>>
>> I see that octave-forge has been broken for quite a while.  Do you mind if 
>> I have a go at redoing it?
>>
>> I presume that you would want to do it meta-port style, that is, lots of 
>> ports with names like octave-forge-plot-1.0.5.
>>
>> I would be happy to do the work, and I think I could get it done quite 
>> quickly, but I don't want to do it if you are about to do it yourself.
> 
> Please find attached the work I've done on this so far, but never found
> time to commit.  This adds a bsd.octave.mk (currently in the wrong
> place) and includes io and signal ports.  I think adding the rest of the
> modules should be fairly easy.
> 
> -- Brooks


Very nice.  I hope people will compare your and my approach, and give us 
their opinions.  In some ways, I prefer your approach, because it 
ideologically fits better with the freebsd package maintenance.  And 
even if I decide to go with my approach, I think I will definitely use 
the bsd.octave.mk idea.

I'm going to wait a few weeks, I think, until I have had time to think 
about it more, and get more ideas and thoughts.

Stephen