From help-request at octave dot org Tue Mar 14 16:01:18 2006 Subject: Re: Octave 2.9 and Octave-forge From: "Keith Goodman" To: "Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso" Cc: help at octave dot org Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:59:08 -0800 On 3/14/06, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote: > Hi, I don't know if this is the right place to ask questions about > octave-forge, but maybe you can help me anyways. > > I was using Octave 2.1 since that's what the Debian APT system > installed by default when I apt-got installed octave (unqualified by a > version number). Looking over its documentation, I noticed that it was > six years or so out of date, so I decided to upgrade to Octave 2.9 > (.4, to be precise), which I hope is in a better stage of development. > Thinking that I didn't need the old octave 2.1 anymore, I apt-got > removed all traces of Octave 2.1, which to my surprise also removed > octave-forge, which lists Octave 2.1 as a dependency. > > My question is this: is this a real dependency or a peculiarity of > Debian's APT system? Do I really need to be using an outdated version > of Octave if I want to be using the user-supplied and reputedly not as > good quality functions from octave-forge? Seems strange, but version > imcompatiblity is not unheard of in these realms. I also noticed that removing 2.1 on Debian etch removes octave-forge. Maybe the Octave Debian maintainers will know why http://pkg-octave.alioth.debian.org/ I don't think that 2.9.4 contains a new Octave manual. But it does contain a lot of nice new features. Once you start using 2.9.4, it is hard to go back to 2.1.72. ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------