Re: Octave v4.4 in PPA

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 14:25:18 +0100, Richard Crozier wrote:
> really? I thought one of the purposes of an Ubuntu PPA (Personal Package
> Archive) was to make the latest versions of a package available before it
> was packaged officially in a distribution.

That is one of the purposes of some PPAs, but not this PPA.

The purpose of this PPA is to backport the latest packaged version of
Octave in Ubuntu's development release to the LTS releases. The current
version of Octave in Ubuntu 18.10 is 4.2.2.

> For a PPA which users have to actively seek out and install, I think there
> might be less expectation of every forge package working correctly. It would
> be nice to at least have the option to use the latest release in a
> relatively easy way. I'm asking because I have a user who wants to use some
> software I've written which only works in 4.4 and it's really quite
> difficult to get 4.4 if you don't build it yourself from source, which is
> non-trivial for the average user.

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 09:33:30 -0400, avlas wrote:
> I used to use the ppa but now there is a flatpak package, which may
> replace it: https://github.com/flathub/org.octave.Octave

Yes, I also recommend you take a look at the Flatpak package instead of
the PPA, which will give you the latest version of Octave immediately on
any distribution.

-- 
mike

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