Octave Transition

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Mon Nov 18 10:18:34 PST 2013


On 2013-11-18 15:12, Michael Dickens wrote:
> I'm almost to the point of making the "Octave transition":

Thank you for working on this.

> 1) moving "octave-devel" (3.6.4) to "octave" (was 3.2.4);
> 
> 2) making "octave-devel" replaced by octave temporarily, to get folks
> currently using octave-devel to move to octave;
> 
> 3) adding "octave-next" for the current 3.7.7 release (yes: it works
> just fine for me on 10.8 and 10.9);

Why do you want to introduce the new octave-current port? Shouldn't
users of octave-devel be aware that they are using a development release?

Rainer


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