Hi søn, 23 01 2011 kl. 09:49 +0100, skrev Olaf Till: > 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.
Basically, I agree with you. It is, however, not clear to me how such a feature can be implemented in the current framework. It is a pretty important to me that it is trivial to generate the web pages for a package; if it is not trivial than I'll just get more work :-) If anybody can come up with a nice way of implementing such a feature in the 'generate_html' package, then I'm all for it. Søren ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
