From bug-request at octave dot org Thu Dec 15 05:45:48 2005
Subject: Re: Can I submit a ver.m and license.m?
From: William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno <williampoetra at gmail dot com>
To: bug at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:44:07 +0800

On 12/14/05, John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu> wrote:
> | +    __prodinfo__.Name = "Octave";
> | +    __prodinfo__.Version = version ();
> | +    __prodinfo__.Release = __get_api_ver__ ();
>
> Instead of this new function, I think we should just add the api
> version information directly to the octave_config_info struct.  Since
> the source of Octave is available, we should not have to do heroic
> things like you've done in __get_api_ver__.  That's the kind of thing
> you do when you are stuck with proprietary software that you can't
> change.
>

Sorry...

> | +    __prodinfo__.Date = __expand_date__ ("");
>
> Should Octave include the release date for each version somewhere in
> the version info or as a separate variable?
>

I think the release date should be included in a separate variable
(maybe OCTAVE_RELEASE_DATE, and a corresponding entry in
octave_config_info).

> | +    if (exist ("OCTAVE_FORGE_VERSION"))
> | +      __prodinfo__(2).Name = "octave-forge";
> | +      __prodinfo__(2).Version = num2str(OCTAVE_FORGE_VERSION);
> | +      __prodinfo__(2).Release = num2str(OCTAVE_FORGE_VERSION);
> | +      __prodinfo__(2).Date = __expand_date__ (num2str (OCTAVE_FORGE_VERSION));
> | +    endif
> |    endif
>
> Instead of embedding this information in Octave's ver function, maybe
> we should provide some mechanism for external packages to register
> their version info with Octave?  This could be done in the PKG_ADD
> file for a package.
>

Yes, we could do that. Would you like to set a standard for that? I
mean, the name of the variable to be used, etc.

--
William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno



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