RE: New package repo request - raspi

"JohnD" <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Nov 2020 13:35:42 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.octave.maintainers
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John W. Eaton [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2020 11:45 AM
> To: Kai Torben Ohlhus; JohnD
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: New package repo request - raspi
> 
> On 11/30/20 1:03 AM, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
> 
> > If you want to opt-in for inclusion of your package into the MS Windows
> > installer, for example, this is independent of being an Octave Forge
> > package and has to be negotiated with the MXE-Octave (MS Windows
> > installer) team.
> 
> Kai, unless I'm confusing identities here, JohnD does the majority of
> the work on mxe-octave so I guess the discussion would be internal.  :-)
> 
> JohnD, yes, we are looking at moving more toward being an aggregator of
> package info rather than directly hosting package development and
> blessing and releasing packages as a collection.  The idea is to lower
> the barrier of entry for people to post their collections of functions
> somewhere, and to eliminate the perception that the Octave developers
> are somehow responsible for tracking bugs and maintaining all the
> contributed packages.
> 
> (Please correct me if this statement doesn't accurately represent the
> conclusions of our recent meeting.)
> 
> jwe


Yeah I wasn’t too concerned of whether I would be able to get in mxe :)

I created a project and pushed the code to source forge and will be finishing it up soon


https://sourceforge.net/p/octave-raspberrypi/code/ci/default/tree/