Gianvito,
First of all thanks for your contribution and welcome to the OF community!
On 17 Jan 2011, at 20:11, Gianvito Pio wrote:
> Thank you,
> we will fix the points 1 and 3 immediately...
> But what about the point 2? Should we put the source code and the build
> instructions in the src directory?
>
> Thanks
Actually even better would be to remove pre-built binary libraries completely
and either
- specify them as external dependencies that
the user needs install prior to installing the package.
- include source code and a makefile to build the library
when the package is installed.
To my knowledge, no other package includes pre-built binaries and I believe
this policy makes a
lot of sens from the point of view of portability.
If I understand correctly the .dll file you included is meant to provide a
POSIX compatible
pthreads library when installing the package on windows, so this lbrary is not
needed :
1 - for all users who are fortunate enough to not run windows
2 - for windows users who install octave via cygwin
3 - for users of the migw32 who only install packages that are included in the
binary
octave installer and never do "pkg install" themselves
so why should users of categories 1,2,3 also download your .dll file?
c.
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