Re: [OctDev] De-crufting octave-forge

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

On Apr 4, 2006, at 7:23 PM, Quentin Spencer wrote:

> David Bateman wrote:
>
>> Quentin Spencer wrote:
>>
>>
>>> David Bateman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Quentin Spencer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Theoretically, the 2006.03.17 o-f release builds with 2.9.5, but 
>>>>> there
>>>>> are incompatibilities, as recently pointed out with the system
>>>>> function (should be fixed in CVS now), so I think we should make
>>>>> another release for 2.9.5+ soon. I'm willing to spend a little time
>>>>> doing some de-crufting, but I just wanted to ask first if there is
>>>>> anything I shouldn't touch. The obvious stuff is all of the 
>>>>> Makefiles
>>>>> and .m.in files for things that are now in octave, but even that is
>>>>> incomplete (most of the stuff in the main/time directory appears 
>>>>> to be
>>>>> in octave now, and there are probably more examples). I also was
>>>>> inclined to just remove the whole sparse directory, but I thought
>>>>> David said we needed to keep the superLU stuff. Any objections?
>>>>>
>>>>> -Quentin
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> A lot of stuff is conditionally built, and that can be removed. 
>>>> Also for
>>>> the sparse stuff the iteration stuff should be kept for 2.9, but 
>>>> not the
>>>> rest. That is the pcg.m and pcr.m functions, but nothing else.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I have now cleaned out everything in main/sparse except for these two
>>> files.
>>>
>>> -Quentin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> With all of the patches that John accepted you can completely remove 
>> the
>> FIXES directory...
>>
>
> I think we should have a new release before removing this, since the 
> changes aren't in 2.9.5, and the 2006.03.17 release has some 
> incompatibilities with 2.9.5 (with the system function, for example), 
> which have been fixed in CVS. By the way, I just did some more 
> removals: the extras/ver20 and extras/fake-sparse.

So you want a new 2.9.5 only release of octave-forge?

You are welcome to run through the instructions in release.sh whenever 
you think we are ready for a new release.

The main/path directory can be removed after the next release of octave.

- Paul