Packaging SPM12 for Octave

[Ankur Sinha]

Hello,

I'm looking at including SPM12[1] as part of NeuroFedora[2]. It's primarily
written for Matlab, but it works on Octave as well. SPM upstream also
works with Octave upstream to improve Matlab compatibility etc.

Unfortunately, as a more Matlab centric package, SPM is not set up to be
set up to be installed as an Octave package like ones hosted at Octave
forge[3]. Currently, one simply runs `make && make install` in the src
directory anywhere on one's system, and then either uses the
"spm12-octave" script to run the "standalone" version of SPM, or runs it
from octave using "addpath (/path/to/spm12/build)". The source does not
contain the required files to use `pkg build, pkg install` etc. as the
template spec and octave macros suggest[4].

So, how should one approach this?

- Should I stick to `make && make install` and then manually install the
  files (so, not use `pkg ...` at all)?
* If so, where should the files be installed? Should they be installed
  in the standard octave directories, or in the general FHS locations?

- Should I add the bits to make it a package (locally in the spec), and
  then use the rpm macros (and so treat it like a standard octave
  package)? This will need a little bit of work downstream, and
  upstream will most likely not accept these Octave specific bits.

[1] https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/software/spm12/
[3] https://github.com/spm/spm12
[2] https://neuro.fedoraproject.org
[4] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Octave

[Benson Muite]

Hi,
What would be needed for it to become an Octave package?
Regards,
Benson

On 01/18/2019 09:04 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking at including SPM12[1] as part of NeuroFedora[2]. It's primarily
> written for Matlab, but it works on Octave as well. SPM upstream also
> works with Octave upstream to improve Matlab compatibility etc.
>
> Unfortunately, as a more Matlab centric package, SPM is not set up to be
> set up to be installed as an Octave package like ones hosted at Octave
> forge[3]. Currently, one simply runs `make && make install` in the src
> directory anywhere on one's system, and then either uses the
> "spm12-octave" script to run the "standalone" version of SPM, or runs it
> from octave using "addpath (/path/to/spm12/build)". The source does not
> contain the required files to use `pkg build, pkg install` etc. as the
> template spec and octave macros suggest[4].
>
> So, how should one approach this?
> Should I stick to `make && make install` and then manually install the
>  files (so, not use `pkg ...` at all)?
> If so, where should the files be installed? Should they be installed
>  in the standard octave directories, or in the general FHS locations?
> Should I add the bits to make it a package (locally in the spec), and
>  then use the rpm macros (and so treat it like a standard octave
>  package)? This will need a little bit of work downstream, and
>  upstream will most likely not accept these Octave specific bits.
>
> [1] https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/software/spm12/
> [3] https://github.com/spm/spm12
> [2] https://neuro.fedoraproject.org
> [4] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Octave
>
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[Ankur Sinha]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 09:07:21 +0200, Benson Muite wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,
> What would be needed for it to become an Octave package?

From what I can find in the documentation[1], Octave packages follow a
directory structure and contain a set of files that provide package
metadata. I am now adding these bits in the spec, and I *think* I have
managed to do it properly. Unfortunately, SPM12 bundles the FieldTrip
matlab tool box[3], so I must package that up first.

[1] https://octave.org/doc/interpreter/Creating-Packages.html#Creating-Packages
[2] https://github.com/sanjayankur31/rpm-specs/blob/spm12/octave-spm12.spec#L49
[3] https://github.com/fieldtrip/fieldtrip