Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages

[Carnë Draug]

On 7 April 2015 at 19:15, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:46:38 -0700, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
>> Looking at general, I wonder if it would be a lot of work to simply drop the
>> inputParser stuff, add a dependency on Octave-4.0.0+ and then make a new
>> release? (bumping just the last digit of the version number)
>> I've only got general pkg installed because it was/is a dependency for
>> several other packages.
>
> Personally I would prefer to keep inputParser in general and allow it
> to shadow the one in Octave until 4.0 has been out for a while, for
> some definition of "a while". It's safer, allows people to upgrade
> more smoothly, allows users to stick with Octave 3.8 but update Forge
> packages, etc. But if the rest of you would rather remove it and put
> out a new general depending on Octave 4.0, don't let me hold you back.
>

The problem with this shadowing of core, is that the version in the general
package is slightly different with the version in core.  This requires
people to check at runtime what implementation of inputParser is being
used.

Carnë