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Re: pkg install -forge [library-X-X]


From: Juan Pablo Carbajal
Subject: Re: pkg install -forge [library-X-X]
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 22:59:48 +0100

> Presumably, that’s the correct image version to install for 3.6.4 octave but 
> that doesn’t seem to work either (and I’d still presumably have to 
> import/install each dependency manually)?
Yes, that the status as of now. We are working on it but development
is slow. check the new pkg.m function if you want to understand what
we are doing
https://bitbucket.org/carandraug/octave/src/d670ed4e5ae64541056dec352af0901270a381c9/scripts/pkg/pkg.m

> I guess I’m wondering: is the -forge flag supposed to only work with the most 
> up-to-date octave and other packages on Octave Forge? Does that mean the 
> other packages in the directory here 
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Forge%20Packages/Individual%20Package%20Releases/)
>  are just fallback for cases like mine that need/want to manually install 
> older packages?

Yes, that is the case and for me it sounds like a reasonable behavior.


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