Re: Examples ? (Was: [Quantlib-dev] tarballs)

[Dirk E. <ed...@de...>]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 05:03:30PM +0200, Luigi Ballabio wrote:
> On 2003.07.26 15:15, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> >
> >Another point:  the examples no longer build as part of 'make', and
> >they don't seem to respont, once built, to 'make install'.
> >
> >Is that intentional?
> 
> It is. They build only if you say "make examples", and don't get 
> installed---there's no much use for them as installed binaries, as
> you can't even pass them any parameters. The sources are
> the really useful part. Maybe you can add them to the docs package?

Err, earth to quantlib, earth to quantlib, ...  The examples have been
available (as binaries) in a separate package quantlib-examples for as long
as there have been Debian packages. [1]  They are useful, see e.g. the
screenshot of my Quantian 'open mosix and apps on a bootable cd' project
where the BermudanSwaption is used to test openMosix :) So that said, I
would like to see 'make' build them and 'make install' install them. As
'make examples' builds them, could we settle on 'make install-examples' to
install them?

And yes, the example sources have always been installed as examples in the
-dev package.
 
> As for quantlib.el, I uploaded new tarballs. I don't really know what 
> automake will say when it'll see that you don't have emacs. If it 
> complains loudly and stops, I'll have to try and add a conditional in 
> there...

Well, so do I understand this as emacs now beeing a build requirement? No
sweat, I will simply add it. That said, you should still add code to have it
behave gracefully in case a vi addict tries to build QL ....  :)

Ciao, Dirk


[1] 

edd@homebud:~> apt-cache search quantlib
libquantlib0 - Quantitative Finance Library -- development package
libquantlib0-dev - Quantitative Finance Library -- library package
quantlib-examples - Quantitative Finance Library -- example binaries
quantlib-python - Python bindings for the Quantlib Quantitative Finance library
quantlib-refman - Quantitative Finance Library -- reference manual
quantlib-ruby - Ruby bindings for the Quantlib Quantitative Finance library
r-cran-rquantlib - GNU R package interfacing the QuantLib finance library


-- 
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
                                                -- Groucho Marx