Re: Octave distribution (was: Re: Octave advocacy)

[Paul Kienzle]

On Sep 17, 2004, at 9:07 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> But as a Debian user, I am glad so many packages are just an 'apt-get
> install' command away.  As a Debian maintainer, I try to make that 
> choice
> available to others via the packages I look after.  Now, as for 
> choice, I
> think these aren't even available in other distros:
>
> octave-ci - Contributed functions for the GNU Octave language
> octave-epstk - GNU Octave encapsulated postscript toolkit
> octave-gpc - Octave bindings for the General Polygon Clipper Library
> octave-matcompat - Empty transition package for octave-forge
> octave-plplot - Octave support for PLplot, a plotting library
> octave-sp - Semidefinite Programming functions for GNU Octave
> octave-statdataml - GNU Octave package for XML-based data exchange
> matwrap - A wrapper generator for matrix languages


There are some more packages which would be nice to have such as
octave-vtk and WaveLab. Want to learn to become a Debian maintainer?

WaveLab mex may not be permissable because the license may not
be GPL compatible.  That's up to John to decide, I guess.

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