Mercurial > octave
changeset 25133:4ccb4f6e59ca stable
maint: reword NEWS description of pkg URL feature
* NEWS: Reword description of pkg feature to install from a URL for
clarity.
| author | Mike Miller <mtmiller@octave.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Thu, 05 Apr 2018 17:42:03 -0700 |
| parents | 0cd7076a97c8 |
| children | 5fccb7373bc4 |
| files | NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/NEWS Thu Apr 05 17:39:15 2018 -0700 +++ b/NEWS Thu Apr 05 17:42:03 2018 -0700 @@ -120,8 +120,11 @@ Use ishghandle or isgraphics if it is important not to include Java objects. - ** Octave packages can be installed by providing an external URI to the - pkg function, like so `pkg install https://some-url.tar.gz' + ** The pkg command now accepts a URL as an argument, allowing a valid + Octave package to be installed from any remote host with one command, + for example + + pkg install https://example.org/download/example-package.tar.gz ** The following statistical functions have been moved from core Octave to the statistics package available from Octave Forge.