Re: Octave 6 transition

["John W. Eaton" <jwe@octave.org>]

On 12/1/20 11:47 AM, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since octave 6.1.0 is in experimental, we can now plan for the
> transition to octave 6.
>
> Note that we have little time left if we want octave 6 to be in
> bullseye, the next stable release. New transitions will not be accepted
> after 2021-01-12.¹
>
> I have tried to recompile all reverse-dependencies of octave.
>
> It turns out that 11 packages maintained by the DOG fail to compile
> against octave 6. I’ve already opened bug reports against those. The
> full list is: strings, image², msh, nurbs, quaternion, struct,
> sparsersb, stk, secs2d, interval, ltfat.

I haven't checked the details, but mxe-octave has patches for strings, 
nurbs, quaternion, interval, and ltfat that might help?

You can find them here: https://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/file/tip/src in 
files with names that match the pattern of-PACKAGE-NAME*.patch

jwe