[Pkg-octave-devel] octave 3.0 and 3.1

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Pascal Dupuis <Pascal.Dupuis at uclouvain.be> [2007-11-07 09:19]:

> according to
> http://www.nabble.com/object-oriented-programming-in-Octave-tf833204.html#a13457
> +064
> there is on the octave main CVS a branch called 'object-branch', wich
> will implement object features, and is to become the future 3.1. There
> is a usual chicken-and-egg problem: without a binary version for it,
> there won't be enough users, and no feedback.
> 
> Would it be possible to create in experimental a debian package of
> octave3.1 based upon this specific branch ?

Note that the version of octave3.0 currently in experimental is just 2.9.15
disguised in another name.  We did this in order to avoid the NEW queue
processing in the future when the real Octave 3.0 will be released.

Our plan is to eventually release octave3.0 to unstable (with the
appropriate Conflicts/Replaces with octave2.9).  We will also probably 
create octave3.1* packages from object-branch (or whichever CVS branch is
more appropriate).

-- 
Rafael