Re: Octave-Forge website / docs.html

[c.]

On 13 Aug 2014, at 11:28, Julien Bect <address@hidden> wrote:

> Le 13/08/2014 11:14, c. a écrit :
>> On 13 Aug 2014, at 07:36, Julien Bect <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Lengthy... and not fully automated, I assume ?
>> actually it almost all automated,
> 
> Ok. So my first goal will be to make it FULLY (and not almost) automated.
> 
>>  what needs to be done is:
>> 
>> 1) install ALL packages.
> 
> Let's tackle this one first... Is there somewhere a "raw" list of all the 
> packages that must be included ?
> 
> It seems that I can obtain it by parsing one of the following pages :
> 
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Forge%20Packages/Individual%20Package%20Releases/
> 
> but shouldn't there be a "source" for this somewhere (for the sake of 
> argument, think of the extreme case where both the FRS data and the web data 
> are lost on SF) N

the list used internally by pkg.m is here:

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

be aware that this is not a static text file it is generated
by a server-side script by iterating over all directories containing
html docs.

c.