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Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#673318: ITP: mwrap -- Octave/Matlab mex generator



Hi

Nicolas Bourdaud <nicolas.bourdaud@gmail.com> writes:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Nicolas Bourdaud <nicolas.bourdaud@gmail.com>
>
> * Package name    : mwrap
>   Version         : 0.33
>   Upstream Author : David Bindel <bindel@cs.cornell.edu>
> * URL             : http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~bindel/sw/mwrap/
> * License         : BSD
>   Programming Lang: C++
>   Description     : Octave/Matlab mex generator
>
> MWrap is an interface generation system in the spirit of SWIG or matwrap. From
> a set of augmented MATLAB script files, MWrap will generate a MEX gateway to
> desired C/C++ and FORTRAN function calls and MATLAB function files to access
> that gateway. MWrap takes care of the details of converting to and from
> MATLAB's data structures, allocating and freeing temporary storage, handling
> object upcasts (even in the presence of multiple inheritance), and catching C++
> exceptions. The gateway functions also work with recent versions of Octave.

May I suggest you to maintain this package under the umbrella of the
Debian Octave Group? [1]

Co-maintenance of packages is considered to be a good thing (TM), and
within this group we already maintain most Octave-related packages in
Debian.

Best,

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianOctaveGroup


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