On Mar 23, 2006, at 5:22 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
I changed the version number in CVS earlier today to be 2.9.5+ and
the
following test from cell2mat.m is now failing:
%!test
%! if ([1e6,1e4,1] * str2num (split (version, '.')) > 2010064)
%! assert (cell2mat (D), F); % crashes octave 2.1.64
%! endif
Do we really need the version number test here?
If there is a need to compare version numbers, then perhaps we should
have a function to do it that can handle things like 2.9.5+ or
2.9.5+SVN-serial-number (or similar).
Comments?
When deploying software which depends on Octave I do not
want to force people to upgrade. In order to support
older versions there will sometimes be a need to compare
version numbers. Alois' NaN and TSA packages in
octave-forge/extra are designed to support multiple versions
of octave and matlab if you want a real world example of the
sort of tests that are needed.*
- Paul