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g-octave 0.4 was released today and here are the news:

• Py3k support
• Restrict the use of g-octave to the users/groups allowed to build packages
• Search of Packages
• Package database moved to Git
• New management of live ebuilds
• CLI option --list rewritten
• Added the option --oneshot
• New script for automated tests
• Proper management of licenses
• Added metadata.xml
• New trac instance and domain

The announcement is here:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.summer-of-code/590

Please test it and share your thoughts with us :)

Thanks!

Hi folks,

here is my weekly report #10.

GSoC report: g-Octave (Improve Octave/Matlab support) July 27

• Tested some Python libraries to work with Git repositories.

July 28

• Nothing done.

July 29

• Did more tests with Python libraries to work with Git repositories

July 30

• Found a RSS feed with the package releases of octave-forge and wrote scripts to build the package database using that feed (contrib/manage_pkgdb.py and contrib/manage_info.py)
• Moved away from the Python libraries to work with Git repositories and wrote a simple class to call the git binary directly. It's fair enough for what I needed.
• Moved the package database to GitHub and rewrote the module g-octave.fetch to get the package database from GitHub, using the snapshot tarballs.

July 31

• Did some changes to remove the PySVN dependency.
• Rewrote the command-line option --list.
• Fixed the eclass to remove the forced strip from mkoctfile calls and more small fixes.
• Added the command-line option --oneshot.
• Did a clean up on the sources.

August 1

• Added the command-line option --list-raw.
• Wrote a new script to do automated build tests, using XML-RPC (contrib/tinderbox.py).
• Did a first round of automated tests using the new script, using my laptop. Report: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.science/1360

August 2

• Added metadata.xml to the ebuild directories.
• Improved the license support on the ebuilds. The LICENSE variable from the ebuilds now matches with the license names found on ${PORTDIR}/licenses
• Started updating the documentation for the coming release.

That's all for now.

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