Re: problem with local packages taking precedence over global and (an apparent) solution

[Carnë Draug]

On 21 May 2012 11:43, Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> From: Carnë Draug <address@hidden>
>> To: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
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>> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 1:25 PM
>> Subject: Re: problem with local packages taking precedence over global and 
>> (an apparent) solution
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>> Hi Sergei,
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>> we have been trying to fix many things on the pkg system (one of them
>> being the code complexity). A few of the subfunctions have already
>> been removed or simplified and made into separate files in a private
>> directory. If you update your repository for the default branch, can
>> you try a fix for those? At the moment it is like this
>> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/1e77f6078692/scripts/pkg
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>> Thanks,
>> Carnë
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> I do _not_ build development versions - my tool uses the standard
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> ./configure
> make
> make check
> make install
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> I am _not_ interested in trying any new code before I see the spec. I.e. one 
> has first to define package system requirements and, specifically, describe 
> various scenarios of local <-> global packages relationships.
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> Think, for example, about package installation prefix - I think this is 
> conceptually broken. Maybe I'll write a separate Email on this.

There's other problems with it, like being unable to handle different
versions of a package at the same time, or having more than one
version of octave installed at the same time. We are aware of it,
hence we are trying to fix.

The problem is that we are moving away from that big chunk of code
you're trying to debug and fix so your patches aren't of much use
since they don't apply against the current code nor map against it
easily. We are not acting in bad faith.

Carnë