Re: Octave and Single Precision

[David Bateman]

Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> A recent exchange on the octave help list:
>
>    Hmm, I don't see any problem. I put the following in a file named test.m
>
>    Thank you for your help. I tried many times but the error is still there.
>
> Of course the problem was because they used different versions of the
> routine, but they didn't have a way to find out which version they were
> using.  This got me thinking about versioning. In RPM/YUM, one of my
> favorite things is that you can find out the provenience of everything, 
> including versions etc:       rpm -qf `which gfortran`
>
> I understand that octave packages will map one-to-one to platform
> packages, right? Would it then make sense to have 'pkg info' command
> that would list component files and versions and dates?  if so, does
> it make sense to rely on the platform packaging system for this info,
> or does it have to be separately maintained?
>
>
>    p
>
>
>   
"pkg list" already lists the version numbers. If you have "nargout > 0",
the returned structure also includes the release dates of the packages..

D.

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