Re: GNU Octave 4.4.0 Released

[Montgomery-Smith, Stephen]

Thanks for the update to 4.4.0.  I have built it from source code, and 
now I notice that a number of octave-forge packages no longer build 
successfully.  One example is general.  Are there going to be new 
releases of these packages that work with Octave 4.4.0 coming out soon?

(I saw on the mercurial repository that there has been some work on 
general to make it compatible with Octave 4.4.0.  Maybe it needs to be 
released as a package.)

This is the list of packages I couldn't build.  This was on FreeBSD.  
Some of them probably haven't been maintained for quite a while, so I 
guess they can be dropped.

audio
communications
database
engine
fl-core
fuzzy-logic-toolkit
general
image
linear-algebra
octclip
octproj
parallel
pdb
signal
tisean


On 05/01/18 22:01, John W. Eaton wrote:
> The Octave developers are pleased to announce a major new release of 
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