Re: linear-algebra 2.2.2 released

[Philip Nienhuis]

Clemens Buchacher wrote:
> Philip,
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 07:04:52PM +0200, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> > Clemens Buchacher wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden
> > > <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >     Yep that is called 'progress". It's inevitable :-)
> > >
> > >     So for Octave-3.8.2 you 'll have to make do with linear-algebra-2.2.1.
> > >
> > >
> > > We now have a latest release of Octave and a latest release of
> > > linear-algebra which are incompatible by design.
> >
> > Pardon me?
>
> I am wondering about the following NEWS for 2.2.2:
>
>     The linear-algebra package is expected to still work for older Octave
>     versions than 4.0.0 as this "isnumeric" check is only additional.
>
> Is this still valid? Because it's not actually possible to install it:
>
> octave:2> pkg install -forge linear-algebra
> error: the following dependencies were unsatisfied:
>     linear-algebra needs octave >= 4.0.0

Try:
pkg install -forge -nodeps linear-algebra

Philip