Re: [OctDev] Test web-site of new octave-forge web-site including all packages

[Bill Denney]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 10-Oct-2006, John Swensen wrote:
>
> | If you are not averse to this idea, I would be willing to work on it 
> | (probably using wget or curl, I think most machines have one of these two).
> | 
> | Suggested commands:
> | pkg netlist
> | pkg netinstall
> | pkg netupgrade
>
> Octave now has urlwrite, which is based on curl, so you could do the
> download step directly in Octave.
>
> See also this thread:
>
>   https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2006-October/000877.html
>   
A related functionality that I had been thinking about recently is that 
this modification to fileparts could be helpful.  I tried to look up 
what the "version" output from fileparts was supposed to be so that it 
could be compatible, but mathworks' own documentation only returns 
empty.  This one will see if the end of the name looks like a version 
(i.e. anything that's a digit or a decimal point) and return that as the 
version.

That should make getting something by version a bit easier.

Bill


scripts/Changelog:

2006-10-10  Bill Denney  <address@hidden>
   *miscellaneous/fileparts.m: make the version output functional.

Index: fileparts.m
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/octave/scripts/miscellaneous/fileparts.m,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -r1.11 fileparts.m
--- fileparts.m 10 Oct 2006 16:10:27 -0000      1.11
+++ fileparts.m 11 Oct 2006 01:43:45 -0000
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@
        extension = "";
       endif
       version = "";
+      vermember = ismember (name, "0123456789.");
+      if vermember(length (vermember))
+       version = name(find (~ vermember, 1, "last")+1:length(name));
+      endif
     else
       error ("fileparts: expecting filename argument to be a string");
     endif