Re: IEEE standard for interval arithmetic approved

[Marco Atzeri]

On 6/12/2015 8:18 PM, Julien Bect wrote:
> Le 12/06/2015 19:40, Marco Atzeri a écrit :

> The problem seems to be that we don't agree on what "source" means.

likely. Sometime happens between upstream developers and packagers

> If by "source" you mean the files obtained directly from the repo, then
> according to your standards both interval and stk have an issue...
>
> > From what I see stk was packaged on 17-May-2015
> > and the last source change is 12-April-2015.
> > So I assume the package is updated; or do you have a different
> > repository from http://sourceforge.net/p/octave/stk/ci/default/tree/ ?
>
> This is just a clone of our main repo, which is at
> http://sourceforge.net/p/kriging/hg/ci/default/tree/.

The two were not in sinc.
I would expect that at least they are updated for release.

> But anyway: please never package stk directly from the repo. If a
> release hasn't been made, it means that the code is not ready to be
> released. Please use the latest public release.

If it works and I do not see a long list of bugfixes, sure.

FYI:
stk-2.3.0 builds fine.
interval-0.2.1 does't not build. So some the latest updates
are needed.

> And you can trust Oliver to be a very active package developper and
> maintainer : if he hasn't made a new release of the interval package, it
> means that it is not ready yet. Again, you'll be safer using the latest
> public release.

If I was looking for safety, I was not doing this volunteer task
 ;-)


> @++
> Julien

Ciao
Marco