Octave out of date?

[Marius Schamschula]

Mojca,

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.

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.

Marius
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Marius Schamschula



> On Nov 1, 2017, at 10:47 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> On 1 November 2017 at 11:49, Marius Schamschula wrote:
>> 
>> We also have such an option:
>> 
>> The octave-devel port.
>> 
>> However, this port has not been kept up to date.
> 
> Are there serious technical problems (I remember compatibility issues
> with lots of octave modules) or just lack of time?
> 
> Judging from the HB formula [1] it might be straightforward to bring
> the port up-to-date (at least without additional modules).
> 
> I remember that octave was in fact seriously outdated in the past, but
> at least the stable version is now fine.
> 
> Mojca
> 
> * https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/octave.rb

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