Hi, I think users should be enabled to choose the package version to download. There are packages which are to a certain degree collections of independent software (e.g. miscellaneous). If a function with stricter dependencies is added to such a package, these dependencies are thereby enforced for all other functions in the package. E.g I put 2 functions into miscellaneous which need a higher Octave version than the others (for 1 function, for which there is a corresponding recent bug report in savannah, this can be easily mended, but not for the other function). But upgrading Octave is not necessarily feasible for everyone. So one might break something by adding new functions. There would be no problem with this if the users could be told that in such cases they can always download an older package version, which lacks the new functionality, but does what they need it for (miscellaneous e.g may be needed for various reasons by many different packages).
With http://downloads.sourceforge.net/octave/<package>-<version>.tar.gz?download one seemingly can access older packages. But I think this should be advertized to the users somewhere on the OF webpage. It's still not ideal, since the existing package versions have to be guessed (some packages are even not numbered continuously). A possibility to list existing versions would be better; just a plain directory for each package, exported over ftp or http, containing all package versions. Olaf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
