Re: Octave and Octave-Forge distribution

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

2011/11/6 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
> On 6 November 2011 10:47, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> When installing packages, I often run into problems resulting from
>> attempting to install on a too old or too new version of Octave.  I
>> don't have any good suggestions for how to avoid such problems in
>> all cases.
>
> I do. But it requires work. Keep Octave-Forge and Octave as
> subrepositories of the same hg repo. This is precisely what
> subrepositories are for, for handling "libraries" or "packages" and
> ensuring that package A works with package B at this or that version.
>
> You wouldn't even need to move Octave-Forge to hg if you don't want
> to; hg allows subrepositories to use all popular VCSes, svn included.
> So I don't think it's *too* much work to maintain. Distribution could
> be somewhat problematic, since if we want people to keep installing
> Octave-Forge packages separately, we have to give them some indication
> of which version of the package to use with which version of Octave
> (and "this package works with Octave x.x.x or later" obviously doesn't
> work).
>
> - Jordi G. H.
>

I do not have an opinion about the hg issue.

I just wanted to point that the packages do check for version of
Octave and other packages (see file DESCRIPTION). The only extra
burden, will be to keep those numbers update and correct.

JPi



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