Re: feature freeze -> 3.0 release

[Shai Ayal]

On 9/22/07, Søren Hauberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> David Bateman skrev:
> > The only thing I really really want to see fixed before 3.0 is that at
> > least one distribution is happy with the octave package manager. After
> > the changes to pkg.m are in can we have at least one test release prior
> > to a full release? In that case might we have a 2.9.15 is a very short
> > time if I get a patch together for pkg.m that Orion is happy with? If so
> > I'd put off an octave-forge release for 2.9.14 to get pkg right and
> > release octave-forge based on 2.9.15.
> I agree very much with these thoughts! I consider the package manager
> broken if no distributors picks it up...

I agree -- this is the key issue which should be solved before 3.0 --
it is very telling that fedora core's last rpm is from 2.9.9 (I think)
-- It would be a shame to release a major release which would not be
distributed in the major distributions.

Shai