Re: IEEE standard for interval arithmetic approved

[Marco Atzeri]

On 6/12/2015 6:52 PM, Julien Bect wrote:
> Le 12/06/2015 18:27, Marco Atzeri a écrit :
> > On 6/12/2015 5:33 PM, Oliver Heimlich wrote:
>
> Hello Marco,
>
> Do you mean that you create cygwin packages directly from snapshots of
> the repository of each Octave package ?

Hi Julien,
only if the repository have a substantial number of bug fixes compared 
to the released files.

Last time (3.8.x era ) I did this exercise 40%
of the 51 packages I built requested the usage of repository
source. In some case I wrote and submitted patches.

> If you do that, the interval package is not the only package with which
> you will have problems. The stk package too. And probably others.

interval is the first with this specific problem.

> Creating a release from the source files from the repository is the job
> of the package maintainer. There is no standardized way of doing this,
> currently (for instance, "make dist"). Some packages require special
> steps during the release process. Other are more straightforward. Only
> the package maintainer knows for sure.

"pkg build" from source should work.
If not the package has an issue (IMHO)

From what I see stk was packaged on 17-May-2015
and the last source change is 12-April-2015.
So I assume the package is updated; or do you have a different
repository from http://sourceforge.net/p/octave/stk/ci/default/tree/ ?

> Why not get the released tarball directly from SourceForge ?

Not all the packages are properly and timely maintained and released.
So between not packaging and building from source I
choose the second route.

> @++
> Julien


Regards
Marco

PS: when I will arrive to the letter S, I will let you know about
 stk packaging if I have problem
;-)