Re: [OctDev] Re: new release

[David B. <Dav...@mo...>]

Quentin Spencer a =E9crit :

> John W. Eaton wrote:
>
> >On 29-Dec-2005, David Bateman wrote:
> >
> >| > I think decrufting and supporting older versions of octave at the=20
> same
> >| > time is not practical, so I'm arguing for a clean break.
> >
> >Sorry, I was traveling for a week, then out of commission with some
> >flu-like thing, then traveling again.  I have a backlog of patches
> >(including the code for the package system) that I will try to work
> >through as soon as possible.
> >=20
> >
>
> While we're still discussing a new release sometime soon, I'd like to
> repeat a request I made a while ago. Can we remove the nonfree director=
y
> from octave-forge and make it a separate package? Even though it's not
> installed by default, I am required to use a modified version of the
> source package to comply with Fedora Extras policies. When I brought
> this up before, I believe the Debian maintainer said they should
> technically be doing the same thing as well.
>
> -Quentin
>
Quentin,

Can you live with it for one more release? If so John has indicated that=20
he is currently incorporating Soren's package manager into 2.9.x and if=20
octave-forge then becomes a purely 2.9.x affair, excluding non-free will=20
become trivial..

Regards
David