Re: Changing package file extension

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Jan-2009, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

| 2009/1/27 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
| > Is anyone willing to do the work to make the change?  Should we
| > support both the new extension (whatever it is we choose) and the old
| > tar.gz?
| 
| So what exactly needs to be changed? I looked at the pkg.m script, and
| the actual extension isn't used anywhere except in the docstrings...
| Just change those?
| 
| It would be nice if "pkg add <TAB>" would try to autocomplete with
| .octpkg extension... does the parser need a modification for this to
| happen?

If the extension is not explicitly used in pkg.m, then I guess it is
just a matter of documentation and changing the names of the Octave
Forge packages.

jwe