Re: octave on development level

[c.]

On 4 Oct 2013, at 16:35, Dmitry Roshchin <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thursday 03 October 2013 11:31:20 c. wrote:
>> I personally think it is a good idea to have the development version
>> packaged (as long as it is made __very__ clear to users that it is an
>> unstable version) as it allows for
>> 
> 
> I thinks users can feel the difference between "octave*" and "octave-
> unstable*" packages.

me thinks so too.

>> - broader testing prior to new stable releases
>> - shorter delay between new stable release and package distribution
>> 
>> so I'd say if you have the new packages ready please go ahead and distribute
>> them.
>> 
> 
> In openSUSE we have science repository, which allows to provide new versions 
> very quickly. But user must add it manually.

that's actually good as the additional step of adding the repo requires users 
to further
think about what they are doing.

>> If you have the time, it would also be great if you could write a wiki page
>> similar to this
>> 
>> http://wiki.octave.org/Debian#Pre-compiled_binaries
>> 
>> about openSUSE.
> 
> Good idea.

c.