<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I, for one, would appreciate an up-to-date octave-devel on macports if someone has the time. In particular, in the current build of the release version (4.2.1) the GUI still crashes on exit.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks again,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Ray</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 1, 2017, at 12:23 PM, Marius Schamschula <<a href="mailto:lists@schamschula.com" class="">lists@schamschula.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Mojca,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>The issues with the octave packages are minor, as most are compatible with the current release and what is on hg, and the others have been dropped upstream. I keep the octave packages up to date.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, I’m not the maintainer of the octave or octave-devel packages (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez). I’ve, at times, kept a more up to date local version of octave-devel, but for the better part of a year, our download scheme has yielded broken archives for octave-devel (pulled from hg). I haven’t had time to investigate what is going on.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 1, 2017, at 10:47 AM, Mojca Miklavec <<a href="mailto:mojca@macports.org" class="">mojca@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 1 November 2017 at 11:49, Marius Schamschula wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">We also have such an option:<br class=""><br class="">The octave-devel port.<br class=""><br class="">However, this port has not been kept up to date.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Are there serious technical problems (I remember compatibility issues<br class="">with lots of octave modules) or just lack of time?<br class=""><br class="">Judging from the HB formula [1] it might be straightforward to bring<br class="">the port up-to-date (at least without additional modules).<br class=""><br class="">I remember that octave was in fact seriously outdated in the past, but<br class="">at least the stable version is now fine.<br class=""><br class="">Mojca<br class=""><br class="">* <a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/octave.rb" class="">https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/octave.rb</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>