Re: Fwd: [swig:bugs] #1353 Octave 3.8.0 support

[Orion Poplawski]

On 01/09/2014 01:04 AM, William S Fulton wrote:
> William S Fulton wrote
>> Commit http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/b6b6e0dc700e looks like
>> it will satisfy our needs. Thanks for restoring some sort of usable
>> versioning. 
> 
> It isn't quite as I'd hoped for detecting 3.8.0. Seems that version 3.2 and
> earlier doesn't define OCTAVE_API_VERSION_NUMBER in version.h either, so
> John Eaton's suggestion for detecting 3.8.0 doesn't work because neither
> OCTAVE_API_VERSION_NUMBER nor OCTAVE_{MAJOR,MINOR,PATCH} are defined in
> 3.8.0 or versions <=3.2. We already have quite a bit of preprocessor logic
> for versions < 3.2. Can you please suggest a header that is available in all
> versions of Octave <= 3.2 and in 3.8.0 which contains a macro to distinguish
> 3.8.0 from earlier versions? Perhaps using the talked about features can be
> used as a hack to detect 3.8.0?
> 
> William

I would consider dropping support for octave 3.2.


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