[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60054] feature request: package install with dependency on java.

[Ernst Reissner]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #60054 (project octave):

I think, I have a concept based on octave functions: 
version(feature) and compare_versions. 
The problem is, that these functions are not at all as required. 

Roughly speaking, one could use these two functions 
for dependency management. 

version() yields octave version, 
version('-java') yields java version, 
and there are other features, which are also desirable to specify. 

One could say that dependencies are allowed for 'octave', 
sth starting with '-' like -java or -blas or sth else. 

Then one could use compare_versions to check validity. 

The problem is, that compare_versions is strange, 
10 < 8 but 10 > 08, what a mess! 

Also version('-java') gives a lot of stuff, 
which has nothing to do with the version. 
Likewise for blas and others. 

So formally, version and compare_versions dont play together. 
In reality, they do better as one could expect. 

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