We also have such an option: The octave-devel port.
However, this port has not been kept up to date. > On Nov 1, 2017, at 1:20 AM, Ken Cunningham <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Our MacPorts version is the latest released version, but homebrew has a +HEAD > option for building the tip of the dev tree for most of their software, and > we don't support that. Perhaps that's what they are talking about. > > It seems to me the tip of the octave dev tree has evolved quite a bit from > 4.2.1 -- I took a look at it just the other day -- probably some new release > coming soon. > > > K > > > On 2017-10-31, at 9:24 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> Dear Jerry, >> >> On 1 November 2017 at 04:36, <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> There are complaints on the Octave list that Octave on MacPorts is out of >>> date and that support has moved to homebrew. I don’t use Octave much but >>> would also appreciate it being kept up-to-date on MacPorts. >> >> Can you please send pointers to those emails? >> >> Octave in MacPorts is at version 4.2.1 since March. I don't see any >> newer releases on their website. >> >> Mojca > Marius -- Marius Schamschula
