Re: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages

[Carlo de Falco]

On 7 Jun 2010, at 12:04, Michael Goffioul wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden>  
> wrote:
> > 3. Obviously, I'll be glad if others can check my code and possibly  
> > improve it.
>
> Just a small improvement suggestion, for anybody's willing to do it,
> it would be nice to get the list of available packages using some  
> "list"
> flag in pkg.
>
> This seems a logical extension, as you're not gonna necessarily
> be browsing octave-forge pages to download the packages you want
> to install, so you might not know what packages are available.
>
> Michael.

I cannot contribute this functionality myself at the moment as I am  
unable to build the developement version of Octave on my system.
But to make the task simpler for who wants to do it, I prepared this  
simple php script:

http://octave.sourceforge.net/list_packages.php

which returns the list of available packages formatted as plain text.
The actual implementation of pkg -forge list should now be something  
as easy as:

[text, succ] = urlread ("http://octave.sourceforge.net/ 
list_packages.php");
if (succ)
  disp(text);
endif

c.