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Re: [ITA] GNU Octave 3.0.0
- From: Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri at yahoo dot it>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:35:53 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [ITA] GNU Octave 3.0.0
Dear Corinna,
thanks very much for the feedback.
--- Corinna Vinschen ha scritto:
> On Feb 7 10:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > 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.
It is a simple copy :-)
I have not noticed the extra changes needed.
> >
> > - 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...
> >
OK.
> > - 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 need to investigate. I strongly suspect that
compatibility is not requested, as 3.0 is substantial
different from 2.1 series.
Unfortunately any rebuild take a substantial time,
so I will need some time to eventually solve
the standard "cyg" prefix issue.
>
> 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.
Next time I should remember to write the
setup.hint immediately after "cygport <package> dep"
and not the week after :-(
>
>
> Corinna
Regards
Marco
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