Re: The octave-unstable PPA

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 14 May 2013 15:18, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>> I am a little uncomfortable with the octave-unstable PPA for Ubuntu
>> for a number of reasons.
>
> I can sorta see your point here. The "unstable" name should mean one
> thing, but the meaning has been somewhat distorted within
> Debian/Ubuntu circles. I have no problem renaming the PPA to "alpha",
> "broken", or "development", or "experimental", whichever sounds the
> least encouraging :)

I like "development". Thanks for the consideration.

>> While I applaud the enthusiasm of following Octave development, I
>> would prefer if there was a very clear way to indicate that this is a
>> development, unstable, experimental, broken version, and if you're
>> using it, that's because you want to participate in Octave
>> development.
>
> I agree. I will put some disclaimer text into the PPA description if
> someone doesn't beat me to it.

Thanks, this sounds good.

- Jordi G. H.