Re: additional packages

[Thomas Treichl]

Ben Abbott schrieb:
> I'm mean different Octave.app's. Say 2.1.9, 2.9.15, 3.0.0, ... , etc.
>
> What I'd really be interested in is one developers version and one 
> stable version. From what I've learned today that sounds possible, and 
> easily accomplished by installing an Octave.app.

Ah ok, yes this is possible (2.1.9 isn't, Octave.app packaging started with 
2.9.12). There is one restriction: You're not allowed to change the name 
Octave.app to anything else (because the name Octave.app is our identifier to 
set up all paths and vars correctly at startup). So a suggestion would be 
something like that:

- Put the most recent version of Octave.app and Gnuplot.app into /Applications

- Create eg. a local path in your home directory

    mkdir ~/MyOctaveApps

- Create other directories within ~/MyOctaveApps where you put the older
  Octave.app (Gnuplot.app unnecessary - always interact with Gnuplot.app from
  the /Applications directory - maybe this won't work before Octave.app 2.9.14)
  so that it looks somehow like this

    ~/MyOctaveApps/Octave-2.9.12/Octave.app
    ~/MyOctaveApps/Octave-2.9.13/Octave.app
    ...
    ~/MyOctaveApps/Octave-2.9.18/Octave.app

After that (by double-clicking the different icons or using the 'open' command 
in your Terminal.app) you can run several Octave.app and your own Fink-Octave at 
the same time.

  Thomas