Re: odepkg-0.8 fails to build/install under Octave 3.6.1

[Sergei Steshenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Alexander Hansen <address@hidden>
> To: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Saturday, April 7, 2012 10:26 PM
> Subject: Re: odepkg-0.8 fails to build/install under Octave 3.6.1
> 
> On 4/7/12 12:03 PM, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>>  From: marco atzeri<address@hidden>
>>>  To: address@hidden
>>>  Cc:
>>>  Sent: Saturday, April 7, 2012 6:28 PM
>>>  Subject: Re: odepkg-0.8 fails to build/install under Octave 3.6.1
>>  [snip]
>>>  odepkg needs a respin, try with SVN latest version
>>> 
>>> 
> http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/main/odepkg/?view=tar
>> 
>>  Do i understand you correctly: ODE package developer/maintainer doesn't 
> check that the package can be installed with (the latest ?) Octave (version) 
> and 
> releases it this way - without checking ?
>> 
>>  Thanks,
>>     Sergei.
>> 
>> 
> No.  The last odepkg release was made about the time of the Octave 3.4.3 
> release.
>

Thanks for the clarification.

Do I understand you correctly that Octave proper (not octave_forge) developers 
do not check Octave packages subsystem (AFAIR, it's contained in pkg.m file) by 
trying to install all the packages ?

Thanks,
  Sergei.