Re: sockets development discussion

[Paul Dreik]

2014-01-05 08:14, Carnë Draug skrev:
> On 4 January 2014 12:19, Paul Dreik <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > 1)
>> > backwards compatibility.
>> > I think the sockets package should work not only for the latest stable
>> > release but also the second latest and possibly older, if it is possible
>> > to do without much trouble.
> That was probably me. I have made a lot of changes in the last 2
> nights and in one of them I removed support for versions before 3.2.
> But I thought it would still work in 3.6. I don't have that version
> around anymore to test. What errors are you getting?
> 
The old <3.2 compatibility stuff for the internal macros which has been
removed is ok. It is running octave with the --no-gui option which
upsets octave 3.6 (have not tried with 3.4 yet, currently waiting for
3.8 to finish building)
I guess "normal users" wont run make check anyway, but I do not like to
break backwards compatibility unless there are good reasons.

I see several ways to provide backwards compatibility:

1)
add a "legacy-check" rule which does not use --no-gui
this means code duplication but is easy to implement.


2)
run octave with "octave --no-gui --eval exit", if it fails, then we know
it is <3.8.

3)
what happens if
--no-window-system
is used? does this imply --no-gui?
I will test if this works in 3.8, when it has finished building.


paul