Octave out of date?

[Ray Zimmerman]

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.

Thanks again,

   Ray


> On Nov 1, 2017, at 12:23 PM, Marius Schamschula <lists at schamschula.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> --
> Marius Schamschula
> 
> 
> 
>> On Nov 1, 2017, at 10:47 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org <mailto: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 I remember that octave was in fact seriously outdated in the past, but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 <https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/octave.rb>
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