Agora Octave
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Agora Octave is a place dedicated for rapid collaboration related to GNU Octave and distribution of community contributed code and packages. You can browse code submissions or contribute your own.
Features (desired)Edit
- User account. ✔
- User profile. ✔
- User ratings.
- Comments.
- Tags and Flags. Is this what we want?
- Download counts.
You can upload your code to Agora. The code is classified according the following criteria.
- Single file
- The file is full responsibility of the uploader.
- Octave and Agora do not check or support this submissions.
- Bundle of files
- The file(s) is(are) full responsibility of the uploader.
- The bundle passes a structure check to see if it is compatible with the builtin Octave installer. This doesn't mean the bundle with install flawlessly.
- Octave and Agora do not check or support this submissions.
- Forge
- The file(s) is(are) responsibility of its maintainer and the Agora maintainers community.
- This package will install using the builtin Octave installer.
The Forge packages have must comply with
- At least one package maintainer.
- Must install and work with the latest Octave release.
- The must be released under a GPL compatible license.
- All functions (except private ones) must be documented using Texinfo.
- The package must have all the required files.
- If the package has a doc folder it should be written in Texinfo.
These packages are also recommended to comply with
- No shadowing of Octave core functions.
- No direct inclusion of external dependencies.
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- Django Upload files
- a good read when thinking about this, is a Zen of Comprehensive Archive Networks with some afterthoughts on the the design of CPAN. I think that an important thing to learn is to get something as simple as an anonymous FTP server working.