Re: Octave on Android

[Richard Crozier]

> Richard Crozier,
>
> Thank you.  This is the first request I have received for this package
> and one of the first for any of my work.  I checked and actually, I only
> had the source code for the octave app pushed up there and not the
> packages.  I have pushed up the source code for the ODE package, but
> will push the others later, when I have a few minutes to work on it.

Thanks!

> What do you need to build the package or Octave for Android itself:
>
> If you want to recompile Octave for armel, you can do so, in a normal
> fashion (if there is a normal way to cross compile, I now prefer just
> creating an ARM image per debootstrap and building in there via QEMU).
> The only thing that is required is that you set the prefix properly.  I
> have pushed some patches described here
> https://github.com/corbinlc/octave4android/wiki/Octave-Source-Changes .
>
> You also need eclipse and the android-sdk.  That is about it.
>
> If you are serious, please do try it out and tell me what is missing.
> If you are just showing how someone is allowed and is supposed to
> request source code if they want it, I appreciate the example.  I have a
> very large change coming to Octave and the packages relatively soon
> (before Christmas I would guess).  It will make the old way of building
> obsolete.

I guess I would say I am 75% serious, I might well want to build for 
android in the future. I also think you are free to charge for this 
stuff if you abide properly by the terms of the GPL (I probably would 
pay a $1, perhaps even, say, $3 to have you do it for me rather than do 
it myself, whether the build system is available or not, mainly because 
I hate the eclipse IDE so much).

Having said this, one might think of all the time the original 
maintainer of odepkg spent on the package (probably much longer than you 
spent on the packaging) and offer at least to cut him in first. This is 
of course not mandated by the GPL, and rather a matter of politeness.

Richard




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