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Re: [ITA] GNU Octave 3.0.0


On Feb  7 10:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Marco,
> 
> On Feb  4 15:03, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> > http://matzeri.altervista.org/cygwin/octave/setup.hint
> > http://matzeri.altervista.org/cygwin/octave/octave-3.0.0-1-src.tar.bz2
> > http://matzeri.altervista.org/cygwin/octave/octave-3.0.0-1.tar.bz2
> > http://matzeri.altervista.org/cygwin/octave/octave-devel/setup.hint
> > http://matzeri.altervista.org/cygwin/octave/octave-devel/octave-devel-3.0.0-1.tar.bz2
> 
> The packaging looks basically ok to me.  I like the simplification into
> base and devel package.  However,
> 
> - the setup.hint file of the -devel package is not ok.  It looks like a
>   simple copy of the former octave-headers setup.hint file and the
>   package description doesn't match the actual package.
> 
> - I know that the former octave-headers also had dependencies to gcc-g++
>   and gcc-g77, but it looks a bit far fetched to me to force a pure c++
>   hacker to pull in g77, and vice versa.  I would remove the
>   dependencies to both complier packages.  After all, it's a -devel
>   package so every developer should know deep in the heart that a
>   compiler is required...
> 
> - is the Octave 3.0.0 API backward compatible with the Octave
>   2.1.x API?  Will old applications linked against those DLLs still
>   run with the new release?  If yes, everything's fine.  If not,
>   we would need new DLLs.  That would have the additional advantage
>   that you could rename the DLLs to use the standard "cyg" prefix
>   instead of the non-standard "lib" prefix.

I forgot two things.

First a big THANK YOU for taking over the package.

Second, the octave base package setup.hint file is missing a dependency
to zlib.


Corinna

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