octave-forge tarball format changed

[Andrea D'Amore]

On 14/mag/08, at 02:04, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Works, but will result in a huge scripted Portfile. Each phase needs  
> to be handwritten (fetching, extracting, etc.).

Indeed

> I don't know about this pkg command from octave. What is its purpose?

To manage octave-forge packages, it is basically an octave interface  
to configure&&make&&make install and it is called as interal command

> I don't know what you mean by this.

Same thing of first point but using octave statements to loop into  
packages rather than system shell.

> What about splitting it up into several ports and make octave-forge  
> depend on all those? This will only work as long as dependencies  
> between these sub-ports can be maintained, otherwise this tends to  
> break...

I had a look to debian octave packages and they have switched to  
single package modules too (maybe accordingly to change in single  
octave-forge package), this has the obvious advantage of semplicity  
and dependency control. I think we should have this approach.

> What is the release policy? Do all these parts have the same version  
> number? Do they all get updated at the same time? Things you have to  
> consider when splitting this into smaller ports.

They have separate versions and each one get updated when needed (a  
bug patch for example)

> Rainer

Andrea