From maintainers-request at octave dot org Thu Apr 13 21:19:59 2006
Subject: Re: Beyond 2.9.5
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
To: David dot Bateman at motorola dot com
Cc: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:18:31 -0400


On Apr 13, 2006, at 5:24 PM, David Bateman wrote:

>> OK I may do this for the future.
>>
>> But for this patch, could you (or someone else) please apply it and
>> check it in if you agree with the method I used?
>
>
> Ok, done but the mfilename changes you made were already in and so it
> didn't patch cleanly... Frankly, the only thing I see that might be 
> done
> different is if we go straight to the final solution removing
> OV_REP_TYPE, and assuming that the CVS HEAD will never again be used 
> for
> anything except a 2.9.5+ version (which is pretty much where we are now
> in any case)... Though the cruft for this is minor.

CVS head is 2.9.5+.  There is a branch for 2.1.x.  Lots of minor
cruft becomes major cruft, so avoid what we can.

	- Paul