Re: Grumble about Fedora not releasing Octave-3.8 for Fedora 20

[Markus Bergholz]

Am 22.02.2014 07:01 schrieb "Terry Duell" <address@hidden>:
>
> Hello All,
> I waited and waited for Fedora to release octave-3.8 for Fedora 20, and finally did a bit of searching and found that builds did exists in the rawhide repo (for Fedora 21, the next release), but nothing seemed to be happening to get an update into Fedora 20.
> I finally grabbed the Fedora 21 src.rpm and did a rebuild for Fedora 20 in mock, and (thus far) it all seems to be working OK.
> I now see Fedora bug reports about octave not being updated in Fedora 20, and they have been closed, 'won't fix', saying that octave-3.8 is too much of a change to do as an update for Fedora 20.
> Perhaps I am missing something, but it didn't seem too much trouble to get it built and working here.
> Fedora is a fairly widely used system, and Fedora 21 won't be out for months, possibly August, and I reckon that's too long to wait for an official release of Octave-3.8 for Fedora users.
> Anyone have any comment on this situation?

Just do it yourself, it's easy.

http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_in_home_directory

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> Cheers,
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> Regards,
> Terry Duell
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