Re: [FORGE] How to find when a package was released

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 16:11:47 +0200, JuanPi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What is the most efficient method to list the date of the last release
> of a package?

Efficient depends on what you've got at your disposal :) If you have
the hg repo cloned,

  hg tags
  hg log -v -r $LAST_TAG_NAME

If you're in Octave,

  pkgs = pkg ("list");
  pkgs{:}.date

if you can figure out which one of the array corresponds to the
package you are interested in. And of course that assumes you have the
latest releases already installed.

If all you have is a web browser, then

  http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php

and click through to the package page of interest.

> I was thinking to use date as a first criterium to decide if a release
> should be made.

Yeah. I know signal is overdue, you guys have been making a few
changes this week, I need to merge into my branch and release soon.

-- 
mike