Re: New Function: verlessthan.m

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 20-Mar-2008, David Bateman wrote:
>
> | This is true for compatibility with Matlab. However, it might be useful
> | in itself within Octave code to have a check on a package version
> | number. Whether that should be done with a function with the same name
> | as the equivalent Matlab function is a different question..
>
> I don't think pkg.m is big enough yet
% ls -l scripts/pkg/pkg.m
-rw-r----- 1 adb014 ecr 68284 2008-03-06 14:51 scripts/pkg/pkg.m

So I hope that was a joke ;-)

> , so maybe this functionality
> should go there?  Perhaps
>
>   pkg require PACKAGE VERSION
>
> to mean that the version for PACKAGE must be at least VERSION (or
> perhaps exactly the specified version if the version string begins
> with "=").
>
> However, I think feature tests would be better than comparing version
> numbers.
>   
That was sort of what I meant when I wasn't sure where to put the
feature.. Not sure I can be bothered supplying a patch myself as I tend
to always have the latest of all Octave packages installed and so the
feature is kind of redundant for me..

D.



> jwe
>
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