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Re: 3.2.4 call for patches


From: Jaroslav Hajek
Subject: Re: 3.2.4 call for patches
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:24:30 +0100



On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Shai Ayal <address@hidden> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden> wrote:
> hi there,
>
> I've spent essentially no time on 3.2.x maintenance last couple of months,
> and it seems that the sources have again significantly diverged, but I feel
> like producing one more 3.2.x release before closing the branch and focusing
> on 3.4.0.
> If you have any patches that you'd like to have applied to 3.2.x, please let
> me know. However, I'm not willing to invest nontrivial amounts of time into
> the individual transplants, so unless a patch is smoothly applicable and
> conforms to the binary compatibility policy, someone needs to convert it or
> the bug will stay unfixed in 3.2.x.

I'm sorry I'm a bit out of touch with the 3.2.x releases, but what is
the policy here? just bug fixes, or can I try to make the fltk backend
work there?

Shai

We should not include patches that could break existing compiled functions. Basically, the point is that users should be able to upgrade Octave (minor) without needing to recompile all installed OctaveForge packages that contain compiled functions, or their own compiled functions.

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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz

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