Re: [OctDev] Re: release notes

[Paul K. <pki...@us...>]

<< I >> am not interested in back porting.  If somebody else
wants to, they can send patches to octave-dev which
extends support  backward.  If you build with make -k,
it will build what can be built and ignore the rest.

Note that not all m-files have tests written for them, so changes
in syntax may go unnoticed during check.

We have a new issue to deal with:  deal, isunix, unix and struct
are now part of octave.  I'm inclined to remove them from the
octave-forge, which will break scripts that depend on them in
older versions of octave.  Someone can volunteer to create
extra/shadow to support this.  I would suggest configure.add
script with lines such as:
	AC_SUBST(SHADOWED)
	OCTAVE_CHECK_EXIST(xxx,,[SHADOWED="$SHADOWED xxx"])
Makeconf.add with:
	SHADOWED=@SHADOWED@
and a Makefile which copies xxx.m.in to xxx.m if xxx is in
$(SHADOWED) and removes xxx.m if it isn't. For oct-files,
you need to build xxx.oct if xxx is in $(SHADOWED) or
remove xxx.oct if it isn't.

This way all and only the shadowed functions will be available
during make check and make install.

Paul Kienzle
pki...@us...

On Jun 19, 2004, at 10:46 AM, Chris Caudle wrote:

> On Saturday 19 June 2004 01:00 am, Paul Kienzle wrote:
>> I'm not interested in backporting
>> support to older octave
>
> What is considered "officially" supported now, just 2.1.57?  I 
> installed
> Fedora Core 2 recently, which installs 2.1.50.  Is that too old, or do 
> you
> just mean the 2.0.X series?
>
> thanks,
> Chris Caudle
>
>
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