On Feb 7 10:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi Marco, > > On Feb 4 15:03, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > http://matzeri.altervista.org/cygwin/octave/setup.hint > > http://matzeri.altervista.org/cygwin/octave/octave-3.0.0-1-src.tar.bz2 > > http://matzeri.altervista.org/cygwin/octave/octave-3.0.0-1.tar.bz2 > > http://matzeri.altervista.org/cygwin/octave/octave-devel/setup.hint > > http://matzeri.altervista.org/cygwin/octave/octave-devel/octave-devel-3.0.0-1.tar.bz2 > > The packaging looks basically ok to me. I like the simplification into > base and devel package. However, > > - the setup.hint file of the -devel package is not ok. It looks like a > simple copy of the former octave-headers setup.hint file and the > package description doesn't match the actual package. > > - I know that the former octave-headers also had dependencies to gcc-g++ > and gcc-g77, but it looks a bit far fetched to me to force a pure c++ > hacker to pull in g77, and vice versa. I would remove the > dependencies to both complier packages. After all, it's a -devel > package so every developer should know deep in the heart that a > compiler is required... > > - is the Octave 3.0.0 API backward compatible with the Octave > 2.1.x API? Will old applications linked against those DLLs still > run with the new release? If yes, everything's fine. If not, > we would need new DLLs. That would have the additional advantage > that you could rename the DLLs to use the standard "cyg" prefix > instead of the non-standard "lib" prefix.
I forgot two things. First a big THANK YOU for taking over the package. Second, the octave base package setup.hint file is missing a dependency to zlib. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat