Code sprint: pkg.m

This page is meant to organize and report the efforts to improve pkg.m

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• KaKiLa 07:34, 2 October 2012 (PDT)
• carandraug 06:47, 3 October 2012 (PDT)
• JordiGH
• cdf

Clone Carnë's repository

https://bitbucket.org/carandraug/octave/changesets/tip/..bookmark%28%22pkg%22%29

Desired features

Reverse autoload function

Though is not related with pkg.m, the function autoload can simplify considerably the PKG_* scripts. The idea is to give generate a function that reverses autoload.

• Change set committed to mailing list. KaKiLa 13:44, 17 November 2012 (PST)

Option update should behave as option install

• It should parse a list of packages and maybe the same flags as install
• It should not stop updating if a package is not found (i.e. user local package, not in Forge).

Coders

• KaKiLa 04:42, 1 November 2012 (PDT)

Integrate generate_html into Octave-core

• The system used to generate pakage releases should be more closely integrated with the package manager
• Maybe a "pkg release" command possibly with "pkg release -binary" option would be a good interface

Coders

• cdf

Keep sources in installed packages

• "pkg rebuild" should re-generate any .oct files, this would be useful when an Octave update breaks the API

Remove -global and -local flags

• Those flags are have shaky functionality so they should disappear

Coders

• Carnë has already a changeset for this

Allow packages to deprecate functions

• Create a system that allows packages to deprecate functions as in core. Possibilities are:
  • Get pkg to accept a deprecated directory inside the package and add it to the search path. Functions in those directories would have to be treated the same as the ones inside the core deprecated
  • PKG_ADD can be used to hack this. Package developers would still have to actually write the warnings on the function code but this would allow to have the functions in a separate directory so they don't foget to remove them on the next release
  • The package developer can also use something like Make to create a normal package from something that actually had a more complex structure, inclusive deprecated directories

Resolve packages dependencies automatically. Download and install

• Get pkg to resolve dependencies automatically by downloading and installing them too.

Make pkg.m more verbose by default

• make the package just a bit more verbose by default

Accept make flags

• make pkg able to supply extra configure and make flags, useful for distributions, including -j for make

Allow installation from given url

• Accept -url <url> to install files and packages directly from the web

Add where is functionality

pkg describe pkg_name gives useful information. But we should allow for more direct queries like

• pkg whereis function_name

  list the installed packages (loaded or not) that have a function matching the name function_name.

• pkg whereis -forge function_name

  list all forge packages that have a function matching the name function_name.

Coders

• KaKiLa