5.1.0 pre-release

[Mohammed Elmusrati]

Hello,

 

Thank you very much for your great efforts.

 

I have installed the prelease of octave 5.1. The installation went fine (Windows 10). However, I received errors during packages installation. For example when tried to install signal packages I received long list of errors (given at the end of this email.

 

I think in future, it would be great if the way of packages installation has been changed to avoid some critical weaknesses like:

1. There shouldn’t be dependency. Every packages should be standalone.  For example, many packages require the signal package. If an error occurred during the installation of the signal package, all other dependent packages will not be possible to  install them. This is a big weakness in the current configuration. I suggest to move all most common functions that are used extensively by other packages to the main Octave. This will be relatively very negligible increase in the size of the program.  
2. Packages installation should be simply coping all packages’ functions in certain pre-defined directory and add path to it like Matlab toolboxes (at least the old versions). There shouldn’t be errors due to packages installation.

 

Best Regards

 

 

 

Error list generated after trying to install signal packages!

 

 

cl2bp.cc: In function 'octave_value_list Fcl2bp(const octave_value_list&, int)':

cl2bp.cc:92:5: error: 'gripe_wrong_type_arg' was not declared in this scope

     gripe_wrong_type_arg ("cl2bp", args(0));

     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

cl2bp.cc:92:5: note: suggested alternative: 'err_wrong_type_arg'

     gripe_wrong_type_arg ("cl2bp", args(0));

     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     err_wrong_type_arg

cl2bp.cc:97:5: error: 'gripe_wrong_type_arg' was not declared in this scope

     gripe_wrong_type_arg ("cl2bp", args(1));

     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

cl2bp.cc:97:5: note: suggested alternative: 'err_wrong_type_arg'

     gripe_wrong_type_arg ("cl2bp", args(1));

     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     err_wrong_type_arg

cl2bp.cc:102:5: error: 'gripe_wrong_type_arg' was not declared in this scope

     gripe_wrong_type_arg ("cl2bp", args(2));

     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

cl2bp.cc:102:5: note: suggested alternative: 'err_wrong_type_arg'

     gripe_wrong_type_arg ("cl2bp", args(2));

     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     err_wrong_type_arg

cl2bp.cc:107:5: error: 'gripe_wrong_type_arg' was not declared in this scope

     gripe_wrong_type_arg ("cl2bp", args(3));

cl2bp.cc:107:5: note: suggested alternative: 'err_wrong_type_arg'

     gripe_wrong_type_arg ("cl2bp", args(3));

     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     err_wrong_type_arg

cl2bp.cc:112:5: error: 'gripe_wrong_type_arg' was not declared in this scope

     gripe_wrong_type_arg ("cl2bp", args(4));

     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

cl2bp.cc:112:5: note: suggested alternative: 'err_wrong_type_arg'

     gripe_wrong_type_arg ("cl2bp", args(4));

     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     err_wrong_type_arg

cl2bp.cc:129:5: error: 'gripe_wrong_type_arg' was not declared in this scope

     gripe_wrong_type_arg ("cl2bp", args(5));

     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

cl2bp.cc:129:5: note: suggested alternative: 'err_wrong_type_arg'

     gripe_wrong_type_arg ("cl2bp", args(5));

     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     err_wrong_type_arg

make: *** [Makefile:40: cl2bp.o] Error 1

make: Entering directory '/c/Users/MOHAMM~1/AppData/Local/Temp/oct-zzeEu6/signal-1.4.0/src'

C:/Users/MOHAMM~1/DOWNLO~1/OCTAVE~1.0-W/OCTAVE~1.0-W/mingw64/bin/mkoctfile-5.1.0.exe -Wall -Wno-depre

cated-declarations  __fwht__.cc -o __fwht__.oct

C:/Users/MOHAMM~1/DOWNLO~1/OCTAVE~1.0-W/OCTAVE~1.0-W/mingw64/bin/mkoctfile-5.1.0.exe -Wall -Wno-depre

cated-declarations  __ultrwin__.cc -o __ultrwin__.oct

C:/Users/MOHAMM~1/DOWNLO~1/OCTAVE~1.0-W/OCTAVE~1.0-W/mingw64/bin/mkoctfile-5.1.0.exe -Wall -Wno-depre

cated-declarations  -c cl2bp.cc -o cl2bp.o

make: Leaving directory '/c/Users/MOHAMM~1/AppData/Local/Temp/oct-zzeEu6/signal-1.4.0/src'

 

pkg: error running `make' for the signal package.

error: called from

    configure_make at line 99 column 9

    install at line 184 column 7

    pkg at line 441 column 9

 

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

 

From: khalil2535
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 3:51 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Finishing up 5.1.0 release

 

what about this rss feed in gnu.org/software/octave

 

It's the link : gnu.org/software/octave/feed.xml

 

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