Re: Going to start Octave Package Management.

[Sergei Steshenko]

On 2/4/19 5:47 PM, Dildar Sk wrote:
> If we do,
> > > pkg update signal
> error: 'installed_pkgs_list' undefined near line 530 column 29
> error: called from
>      pkg at line 530 column 26
>
> I don't know if it is a bug or not. But in such cases there would be no
> possible way to update a single intended package. In this case there will be
> no package with multiple version available(If we do pkg update it would
> update all packages including package_something-older,
> package_something-moreOlder to latest version) Because there is no choice to
> upate package_something-someSpecificVersion.
>
>
>
> --
> Sent from: http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Octave-General-f1599825.html
"I don't know if it is a bug or not" - forget about 'pkg.m' for a while. 
It's a vivid example how SW should NOT be developed - because the whole 
Octave packaging system to the best of my knowledge has never been 
properly spec'ed.

--Sergei.