Month: March 2011

  • How to write a patch for Octave

    Often people will find ways to improve Octave’s source and provide a patch, but in a way that is slightly inconvenient to analyse and apply. I will now present instructions for creating a patch for Octave in a manner that is easiest for core Octave developers to apply. In what follows, I assume that you […]
  • Making posting easier

    Dear lazyweb, How can I make blogging as painless as possible? I’m an Emacs + Wordpress user. I wish I could just easily post from Emacs. Right now, I still use the Wordpress admin website for posting, and although of course it’s not hard to do it this way, it’s awkward to have to log […]
  • Earning my wings

    I forgot when it happened, but it was sometime in late January or February that I was finally given push access to the Octave repositories, plus being a manager for Octave items at the Savannah website where it’s hosted. This means I have the privilege to commit my changes to Octave code on my own […]