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 <li...@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 <mo...@macports.org >> <mailto:mo...@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 I remember that octave was in fact seriously outdated in the past, but 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> >
