Re: Improving installation of packages

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 7 August 2012 15:22, Sergey Dudoladov <address@hidden> wrote:
>>  GSoC Project Ideas page mentions that installation of packages from within
>> Octave needs to be improved.  Is it still needed ?
>
> Yes. The "monolithic" function in question is pkg.m. This is relevant
> reading material:
>
>     http://octave-forge.blogspot.ca/
>     http://dellsystem.me/posts/socis-2012-with-octave/
>
> Both are syndicated from our Planet feed:
>
>     http://planet.octave.org
>
> HTH,
> - Jordi G. H.

A quick and (maybe) easy tasks:
1. to add the -url flag to pkg install
2. automatically install dependencies


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M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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