Re: Why no more OCTAVE_API_VERSION_NUMBER?

[John W. Eaton]

On 12/30/2013 03:41 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> This commit:
>
> changeset:   17510:7542f4496974
> user:        John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
> date:        Sat Sep 28 15:04:14 2013 -0400
> summary:     eliminate some macros in version.h
>
> Appears to have gotten rid of OCTAVE_API_VERSION_NUMBER from version.h.  It
> appears that at least swig uses this macro in #ifdefs to handle changes in the
> Octave api and this is breaking swig generated code for octave 3.8.0 (see
> https://sourceforge.net/p/swig/bugs/1353/).
>
> Is there a particular reason for this change?  Is there a better way to check
> API versions?  The text string OCTAVE_API_VERSION is a lot harder to parse.

I removed it because it was no longer needed in Octave.

jwe