[Pkg-octave-devel] Adding an Octave-dependent software into Debian
Hi everyone,
I am a co-developper of Dynare, a free software for the resolution and
estimation of a family of economic models called Dynamic Stochastic
General Equilibrium (DSGE) models. Dynare has become quite popular
among macro-economists, and is now used in many central banks and
universities.
The project homepage is: http://www.dynare.org
Dynare source code is covered by the GPL 3 (except a few files which
are in the public domain); documentation is covered by the GFDL
(without invariant sections).
Basically Dynare consists of three parts:
- a preprocessor (written in C++) which parses a text file containing
the model description, and dumps Octave/Matlab intermediary files
- a collection of Octave/Matlab routines
- a few dynamically loadable libraries (DLL), called from
Octave/Matlab, for time-critical algorithms
Historically Dynare has been developed and used under Matlab. With a
few minor changes we made it run under GNU Octave 3.0 (although a few
features are still problematic).
I would like to make Dynare enter the official Debian project. I have
already created a Debian package for the latest stable version of
Dynare (see http://www.dynare.org/DynareWiki/InstallOnDebianOrUbuntu).
However note that my packaging is probably not suitable for direct
entry into Debian, because it creates both Octave and Matlab DLLs, the
latter being obviously not desirable for a Debian package.
I have ideas on how to improve the packaging, and of course I would be
willing to do the necessary work for creating a 100% policy-compliant
package.
Do you think that I should open a RFP bug? Do you know of anyone who
would be willing to become a sponsor for this?
Best regards,
Sébastien Villemot
Bank of France
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