Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages

[John Donoghue]

On 04/10/2015 09:11 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 16:05:15 -0400, JohnD wrote:
> > I just tried installing all of packages that currently in the active
> > list on octave forge in Windows using octave 4.0.0 rc2   (32 bit)
> > This is trying to install on the windows machine, not attempting cross
> > compile, using what is available as the 'current' package on
> > octave-forge.
> > Heres the following results:
> So do you intend to drop or patch the remaining failing packages in
> build_packages.m (dicom, odepkg, windows) if no fixed releases are made
> before the official 4.0 Windows binary is built?
>
> Thanks for working on this,
Since there are patches available for most, I could patch most of them 
in mxe.

The windows package may be a different story, as even patched, it 
currently says it has errors.

But, even if patched in in mxe, anyone who tries installing from octave 
forge will get failures.