[Pkg-octave-devel] Uncommon Files: Octave-forge 2.9/2.1 transition
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at debian.org
Thu Feb 9 09:54:54 UTC 2006
* 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
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