Re: "optim needs miscellaneous >= 1.0.10" problem

[Sergei Steshenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
> To: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
> Cc: Thomas Weber <address@hidden>; "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, April 2, 2012 12:19 AM
> Subject: Re: "optim needs miscellaneous >= 1.0.10" problem
> 
> On 1 April 2012 17:02, Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden> wrote:
>>  I'm wondering hoe many years it will take to convince that Octave
>>  and packages should be released in conjunction with each other.
> 
> We're not doing this to spite you. OF Packages are released separately
> because it's too much work to do it together and OF package developers
> sometimes see Octave as a foreign black box instead of something they
> should work with.
> 
> - Jordi G. H.
>

You are doing this because of lack of understanding of importance of proper 
integration and QA.

Had you been releasing Octave and packages together, you would have had much 
less bugs in Octave pkg.m and in packages themselves. I.e. building _all_ the 
packages with an Octave version is a very good test for both Octave and 
packages.

I am saying _very_ tirvial things - look at a Linux distro for example - it is 
released with thousands of packages. And if a package from an official 
repository can't be installed, it is considered to be a bug.

Regards,
  Sergei.