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 <[email protected]> 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 I remember that octave was in fact seriously outdated in the past, but 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
