[Pkg-octave-devel] octave2.9 in sid

[folajimi]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> * Colin Ingram <synergizedmusic at gmail.com> [2005-11-07 11:19]:
>
> > this week and next week are quite busy for me but I can start working
> > on this on the weekends.  Anway one else with more time go ahead and
> > start it up and I'll jump in on the weekends.
>
> Although I wrote that I do not have time for tackling this, I could not
> refrain myself of thinking about the implementation.  I guess that the
> most reasonable way to build the versioned package for octave-forge (for
> instance) is by having both built at the same dpkg-buildpackage run.
> This would mean to build-depend on both octave2.1 and octave2.9 and
> running twice configure/make.
>
> At any rate, before doing any real implementation, let us discuss about
> the new design here.  I think that this is not a trivial task and it is
> better to have a well-thought design before doing random changes to the
> SVN repository.
>
> --
> Rafael

Has anyone heard from Colin recently (i.e. in the last week or so?) I was just
wondering about the status of the proposed design & implementation.

JA