[Pkg-octave-devel] Uncommon Files: Octave-forge 2.9/2.1 transition

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Colin Ingram <synergizedmusic at gmail.com> [2006-02-06 13:11]:

> I assume that the m-files can be installed in version specific
> directories for example:
> 
> /usr/share/octave/2.1.72/site/m/octave-forge would have cell/cell2mat.m

Yes, this is the way a cope with the problem, but then we will have to
recompile for every new version of Octave.

I have not looked at the sources, but what about patching the files to
use the OCTAVE_VERSION conditionally?  If this work, you could c
contribute the changes upstream to octave-forge.
 
> but what do we do about /usr/bin/mex and the man page?  Can these
> files be made version specific?

Yes, by using the /etc/alternatives mechanism.  We are already doing this
for a bunch of other files.

-- 
Rafael