Re: feature freeze -> 3.0 release

[Thomas Weber]

Am Samstag, den 22.09.2007, 09:57 +0100 schrieb Shai Ayal:
> On 9/22/07, Soren Hauberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> > David Bateman skrev:
> > > The only thing I really really want to see fixed before 3.0 is that at
> > > least one distribution is happy with the octave package manager. After
> > > the changes to pkg.m are in can we have at least one test release prior
> > > to a full release? In that case might we have a 2.9.15 is a very short
> > > time if I get a patch together for pkg.m that Orion is happy with? If so
> > > I'd put off an octave-forge release for 2.9.14 to get pkg right and
> > > release octave-forge based on 2.9.15.
> > I agree very much with these thoughts! I consider the package manager
> > broken if no distributors picks it up...
> 
> I agree -- this is the key issue which should be solved before 3.0 --
> it is very telling that fedora core's last rpm is from 2.9.9 (I think)

It just tells that Quention doesn't have much time (which I think he
said on the list).


> -- It would be a shame to release a major release which would not be
> distributed in the major distributions.

Most distributions have more or less up-to-date versions of Octave in
their development branches. 

        Thomas