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Re: 2.1 branch vs. 2.9 branch
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Rafael Laboissiere |
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Re: 2.1 branch vs. 2.9 branch |
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Mon, 6 Nov 2006 20:05:43 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
* Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso <address@hidden> [2006-11-06 06:57]:
> On 03/11/06, Ronald Crummett <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 2. I do recall reading, once, that many of the Octave-Forge functions
> > have been incorporated into the 2.9 branch - but not all, right? So if
> > I install a 2.9.x version I would still need to install Octave-Forge -
> > but would doing so override some of the functions included in Octave?
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> Don't quote me on this, [...]
Sorry, I am going to...
> [...] but I believe the Debian Octave team backports some of the 'forge
> functions to the 2.1 branch in their octave2.1-forge package:
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> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/math/octave2.1-forge
This is not completely accurate. The octave2.1-forge package is built from
the 2006.03.17 tarball, while the octave2.9-forge package is based on the
2006.07.09 tarball. There is no backport of this last tarball for
octave2.1, and there will never be.
--
Rafael, on behalf of the DOG