Re: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Carlo de Falco <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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.

I think you should be able to build now, the missing file is online.

> 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.
>

Brilliant, we can use this instead of grepping through the result of
urlread ("http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php";);

thanks

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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
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