[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45188] MXE: problems installing different Octave versions side by side

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #20, bug #45188 (project octave):

Let's take the practical route.

The easier I can fool the installer script(s) to assume a different version
number ("octave-<version>-#2" or whatever), the less is stirred up. And I'm
afraid I've already stirred a lot :-)
So, adapting 'mxe-octave/octave/octave-version' seems least intrusive. BTW
IIRC in makeinst_script.sh there's a ".1" or ".0" added to the version to have
it contain 4 numbers separated by dots isn't it. Perhaps that provides a
suitable route.

BTW apart from the version check in the registry there's still the install
directory check. So unwary users should still catch some warning.
How difficult is it to add some counter ("-#2" or "-#3") to the version number
once the registry check hits target?


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