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On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Davide Cittaro wrote:
Hi there, I may missing something, but what's happening with octave
ebuilds? It looks that the latest version in portage is 2.1.73 that
is 2006ish, while 2.9.15 has been released...
d
Hi Davide,
Thanks much for your inquiry since it provides me with
an opportunity to send out an email regarding the status
of octave/octave-forge to all of you.
The new octave is currently available at the science overlay [1].
Somewhat unfortunately, octave and octave-forge are tied together
pretty closely so we have always tried to keep both in sync,
particularly since octave-forge is used by many octave users.
With octave 2.9.x the previously monolithic octave-forge package
has switched to a new "split-package" distribution system which
required a complete rework of our octave-forge ebuilds; most of
the work is now handled by a newly designed octave-forge eclass.
Please check out [2] and [3] for more details.
I am planning to move all packages belonging to the new
octave/octave-forge infrastructure which are currently
located at [4] to the science overlay over the weekend.
Particularly the octave-forge eclass needs a little more
testing to iron out bugs. If nothing major crops up we can probably
move everything to the main portage tree in the near future.
cheers,
Markus
[1] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/science/
[2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153462
[3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179885
[4] http://dev.gentoo.org/~markusle/octave-overlay/
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Markus Dittrich (markusle)
Gentoo Linux Developer
Scientific applications
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