Re: Homepage/repository for external packages

[Oliver Heimlich]

Hi Marco,

to obtain a homepage link from the URL field in the DESCRIPTION file is a 
relatively new feature. That's why some old packages are missing the homepage 
link even though there is a known location. The next release of these packages 
would fix that automatically or we could update the HTML documentation.

Any external package should have a homepage, so we should be able to create a 
complete list.

I am going to fix that based on your list, thank you. Let's see how many 
packages will be left with unknown homepages after that...

Also, we should think about the 'repository' link on Octave Forge for external 
packages. It points to our clone of the upstream repository, which is not 
up-to-date with current development (except for release time). The SF.net 
repository browser can't show any forks unless they are hosted on SF.net 
itself. Should we link to the upstream repository as well? Or should we make it 
more clear that one only gets a clone of the development repository?

Oliver


Am 30. Mai 2018 23:51:54 MESZ schrieb Marco Atzeri <address@hidden>:
>I noticed that is difficult for external packages for which a
>Homepage is not declared to understand where the latest code is
>available.
>In same case I found some hints but a lot are not reported
>and in few cases the "Url:" of DESCRIPTION is not properly
>converted in the Homepage field (eg tisean):
>
>external packages
>
>bim
>bsltl           http://www.nongnu.org/bsltl/ (Homepage)
>divand         http://modb.oce.ulg.ac.be/mediawiki/index.php/divand (Url not 
>available)
>fits
>fpl
>ltfat           http://ltfat.github.io/ (Homepage)
>msh
>nan             http://pub.ist.ac.at/~schloegl/matlab/NaN/ (Homepage)
>nurbs
>ocs
>octclip         https://bitbucket.org/jgpallero/octclip (?)
>octproj         https://bitbucket.org/jgpallero/octproj (?)
>secs1d
>secs2d
>secs3d
>stk             https://sourceforge.net/projects/kriging/ (Homepage)
>tisean          https://bitbucket.org/josiah425/tisean (Url)
>tsa             http://pub.ist.ac.at/~schloegl/matlab/tsa/ (Homepage)
>vibes
>
>
>also some packages reported as community seems to be
>stored somewhere else
>
>mpi             https://bitbucket.org/cdf1/octave-mpi (?)
>
>
>It will be nice to use the "Url:" of DESCRIPTION
>to point at the code site, so that any potential contributors
>will know where control latest code, report issue and propose patches.
>
>Regards
>Marco