octave.pkgs.sparsersb: init at 1.0.8

pkgs/development/octave-modules/sparsersb/default.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{ buildOctavePackage
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, librsb
+}:
+
+buildOctavePackage rec {
+  pname = "sparsersb";
+  version = "1.0.8";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/octave/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0nl7qppa1cm51188hqhbfswlih9hmy1yz7v0f5i07z0g0kbd62xw";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    librsb
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/sparsersb/index.html";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    description = "Interface to the librsb package implementing the RSB sparse matrix format for fast shared-memory sparse matrix computations";
+    # Mark this way until KarlJoad builds librsb specifically for this package.
+    broken = true;
+  };
+}

pkgs/top-level/octave-packages.nix

@@ -179,6 +179,12 @@ makeScope newScope (self:
 
     sockets = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/sockets { };
 
+    sparsersb = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/sparsersb {
+      librsb = null;
+      # TODO: Package the librsb library to build this package.
+      # http://librsb.sourceforge.net/
+    };
+
     stk = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/stk { };
 
     struct = callPackage ../development/octave-modules/struct { };