Re: [OctDev] Test web-site of new octave-forge web-site including all packages

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Oct-2006, Bill Denney wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
| > On 10-Oct-2006, John Swensen wrote:
| >
| > | If you are not averse to this idea, I would be willing to work on it 
| > | (probably using wget or curl, I think most machines have one of these 
two).
| > | 
| > | Suggested commands:
| > | pkg netlist
| > | pkg netinstall
| > | pkg netupgrade
| >
| > Octave now has urlwrite, which is based on curl, so you could do the
| > download step directly in Octave.
| >
| > See also this thread:
| >
| >   https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2006-October/000877.html
| >   
| A related functionality that I had been thinking about recently is that 
| this modification to fileparts could be helpful.  I tried to look up 
| what the "version" output from fileparts was supposed to be so that it 
| could be compatible, but mathworks' own documentation only returns 
| empty.  This one will see if the end of the name looks like a version 
| (i.e. anything that's a digit or a decimal point) and return that as the 
| version.

I suspect the original reason for attempting to handle the version
part of a file name was for VMS-style file versions:

  foo.bar;1
  foo.bar;2

etc.  As I recall, these were handled by the filesystem and were not
part of the filename itself.

I hesitate to add anything to fileparts that attempts to parse the
filename and decide what might be a version number.  Doing that could
break code or at least produce surprising results for people who are
not expecting it.

jwe