Re: fis-gtm

[Thorsten Alteholz <debian-med@alteholz.de>]

Hi Laurent,

On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Laurent Parenteau wrote:
> I think it would be better if the packages would have the version number
> in the name, and maybe have fis-gtm depend on the latest release.  This
> way, one could install multiple different versions of GT.M if needed.

you could already do that now. If you don't purge the package, your old 
installation will remain in a directory containing the version string, 
like /usr/lib/fis-gtm/54002A. I saw a remark in some documentation that 
the old version should be always kept. The only problem would be that you 
can not install an older version after that was replaced by a new one on 
the repository server.
Or do you really prefer something like postgresql? What about bugfixes? 
If there is a version 1.2.003 in the repository, do you provide bugfixes 
for such an old version?

> I don't think this had been tried.  Since someone else (Alan O'Neill)
> was able to use Python script instead of the MUMPS code in the build

Is this script available for everybody?

> process, I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to do the same thing
> with another MUMPS compiler.

Do you have an idea how I can do any test to verify whether the newly 
build stuff works?

> I think the best documentation about that is the makefile itself, and
> the M files used by the makefile.

This seems to be a real challenge.

  Thorsten