Re: "optim needs miscellaneous >= 1.0.10" problem

[Alexander Hansen]

On 4/1/12 2:19 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 1 April 2012 17:02, Sergei Steshenko<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > I'm wondering hoe many years it will take to convince that Octave
> > and packages should be released in conjunction with each other.
> We're not doing this to spite you. OF Packages are released separately
> because it's too much work to do it together and OF package developers
> sometimes see Octave as a foreign black box instead of something they
> should work with.
>
> - Jordi G. H.
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It's definitely hard to coordinate releases when you're a group of 
volunteers working in geographically disparate locations.

Downstream packagers of Octave and Octave Forge can and do make up 
bundles for their own distributions.  For example, I've made up bundles 
for the Fink project on Mac OS X for Octave 3.0.5, 3.2.4, 3.4.3, 3.6.0 
and 3.6.1.  When an Octave Forge package is updated, but not compatible 
with older Octaves, I keep the old version available.

Since Fink is a source-based distribution, fundamentally, this relies on 
the Octave Forge developers being so kind as to retain the older 
versions of their package sources. :-)  I definitely appreciate this.

--
Alexander Hansen