Søren Hauberg wrote: > man, 04 05 2009 kl. 23:00 +0200, skrev Søren Hauberg: > >> man, 04 05 2009 kl. 22:44 +0200, skrev Søren Hauberg: >> >>> I'm a little bit late, but I'm working on the release right now. >>> Hopefully I'll have it ready in a few hours (but we'll see). >>> >> It seems like I'm being hit by some bugs, that will require fixing >> before I can make the release. I'm simply too tired to fix these >> tonight, so I will not be able to make the release until some time >> tomorrow. I apologise for any inconvenience this might cause. >> > > As should be clear, I didn't make a release yesterday. It is turning out > to be fairly hard to actually make the release. The release system makes > a release of all packages at once. The system requires the individual > packages to be installed in Octave, and as such it requires being able > to actually start Octave. The basic problem I'm seeing is that some > packages depend on the 3.1.x series while others depend on the 3.0.x > series. That means I cannot install all packages using one version of > Octave, which is an assumption of the release system. > > The summary is that it will be quite hard to actually make a new release > using the current system. So, I could either spend time on fixing the > current system, or finalising the next system. The current system is > quite a mess since it was written over many years by many different > people using different programming languages. My motivation for fixing > this is quite low, so unless somebody steps up and fixes the current > system, then I think focus should be turned to finalising the next > system. > What I did in this case was to try and make a release for a particular version of Octave (3.1.55 in this case) and so the fact that all packages could be build with a single version of Octave wasn't an issue.. As you say this often meant quite a bit of bug fixing for the packages and in this case a transition from 3.0.x to 3.1.x will create a certain number of issues.
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