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[Etienne G. <et...@an...>]

 Hello again

From: Kai...@t-... (Kai Habel)
#  Hello,
#
#  So, we are a few registered developers now, what are our next steps? I
#  have reread the recent thread 'User Functions' on octave-help (~ 10.
#  october). All seems to agree to move the matcompat scripts (assembled by
#  Paul) to sourceforge, right?
#
#  First we have to setup a cvs archive structure, Here is my suggestion
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  On that subject

1) It would be good to offer an easy way of getting parts of the
   repository would be useful for people who don't have CVS or don't
   want to check out the whole repository. Like tarballs, for m-files.
   Tarballs + Makefile for DLD functions? (I don't know how to install
   them, except "by hand").

2) On-line documentation : Could use oct2html and friends.

3) 2.1 vs 2.0 : one directory tree for each? I use only 2.1 and don't
   know what would run with 2.0.

4) Test functions : there is Paul's "ftest" function. Nowadays, I use
   scripts "test_function_name", which set an "ok" variable to 1 or 0
   and can be more or less verbose depending on the presence of a
   "verbose" variable. This can help make sure that changes don't
   break things.

  Cheers,

  Etienne