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Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arr
From: |
Joao Cardoso |
Subject: |
Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave. |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:44:48 +0100 |
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On Friday 20 June 2003 02:39, John W. Eaton wrote:
| On 20-Jun-2003, Joao Cardoso <address@hidden> wrote:
| | And some distributors also. Octave is not available under SuSE since
| | SuSE-8.0; the problem, I think, is that the stable octave version
| | can't be compiled with the shipped gcc.
|
| I think this has changed. Although it doesn't show up in the
| package database on their web site, someone told me that it is on the
| latest CD. I see an RPM file for 2.1.44 on one of their ftp mirrors.
It is not in the sold CDs, which I have on line. SuSE-8.0 had octave-2.0.16,
but it disappeared in 8.1 and 8.2.
| The problem with making a stable release is that I don't want to waste
| my time patching it with fixes that I have already made to the
| development version. I tried that before and it didn't work for me.
| It took too much energy to keep up with fixes for the stable release.
| After only a short while it was not nearly as simple as making diffs
| from the development CVS and applying them to the stable sources. If
| someone good would seriously consider taking over a stable release,
| then I would consider it. I have asked in the past, but no one
| volunteered. Maybe things are different now. If so, and you would be
| interested in this job, then speak up.
I don't have the knowledge/skill.
| Otherwise, there is no way I
| plan to do it. I don't see the point of having a particular version
| frozen and called stable when it might have serious bugs that would
| never be fixed in an updated release.
|
| Another possiblity is to do away with the 2.0.x series and just have
| one. It would not be labeled "stable" or "development" or anything
| else. Then if you want Octave, you get the latest version. We would
| make releases when we felt comfortable that things were mostly OK and
| people who want to work with the latest sources would use CVS.
I only see people complaining for bugs in the mailing lists after a release;
cvs is seldom used, so I'm afraid this would not work.
Instead, keep releasing as you do now, and after a couple of weeks of
releasing what looks to be a stable release, tag it as WPW, "works pretty
well".
Joao
|
| jwe
- A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave., (continued)
- A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave., John W. Eaton, 2003/06/18
- Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave., Andy Adler, 2003/06/18
- Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave., Joao Cardoso, 2003/06/19
- Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave., John W. Eaton, 2003/06/19
- Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave., Dirk Eddelbuettel, 2003/06/19
- stable/development release ideas (was : Re: A group in Norway...), nick . smethurst, 2003/06/20
- Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave., Joao Cardoso, 2003/06/20
- Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave., Etienne Grossmann, 2003/06/20
- Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave.,
Joao Cardoso <=
- Octave 2.2.x Was: A group in Norway ..., Andy Adler, 2003/06/20
- Octave 2.2.x Was: A group in Norway ..., John W. Eaton, 2003/06/20
- Re: Octave 2.2.x Was: A group in Norway ..., Andy Adler, 2003/06/20
- Re: Octave 2.2.x Was: A group in Norway ..., John W. Eaton, 2003/06/20
- Re: Octave 2.2.x Was: A group in Norway ..., Quentin Spencer, 2003/06/20
- Re: Octave 2.2.x Was: A group in Norway ..., Andy Adler, 2003/06/20
- Re: Octave 2.2.x Was: A group in Norway ..., John W. Eaton, 2003/06/20
- Re: Octave 2.2.x Was: A group in Norway ..., Andy Adler, 2003/06/23
- Re: Octave 2.2.x Was: A group in Norway ..., John W. Eaton, 2003/06/20
- Re: Octave 2.2.x Was: A group in Norway ..., Dirk Eddelbuettel, 2003/06/20