On Mar 9, 2021, at 03:18, Andrew Janke wrote: > Octave 6.2.0 is out; released on Feb 20. Looking at > https://ports.macports.org/port/octave/summary, it seems like the MacPorts > port is still on 6.1.0. When can we expect it to update to 6.2.0? Anything I > can do to help out with that process? I ask because we just had a user ask on > the octave-maintainers list about a build-from-source issue with 6.2.0 from > source on Mac in a MacPorts environment, and I would really like to be able > to tell them "just install the official port!".
To request a port update, it is recommended to file a ticket in our Trac issue tracker, or if you can prepare the update yourself, you can submit that to us as a pull request. > Question 2: When I go to https://ports.macports.org/ and type "octave" in the > "Search Ports" field, leaving the radio button on "Search by port-name" and > hit enter, it brings up results for all the octave-* add-on packages, but not > the octave port itself. What's up with that? The bug report for this issue is: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/59991 > Question 3: I was going to ask you about getting my Tablicious package in to > MacPorts even though it's not an official Octave Forge package, but oh, wow, > it's already there! https://ports.macports.org/port/octave-tablicious – Is > there anything I can do as a package maintainer to make it easier to produce > a quality port here? And out of curiosity, how did you find Tablicious in the > first place? It's not exactly in common use (yet!). Marius added it last month but did not mention where he found it: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/11e5dbd983ba2cca63e884245fb4adfd5f40b6b3 > The Homepage listed for Tablicious in its port description is incorrect. It's > not https://octave.sourceforge.io/tablicious/, because Tablicious is not in > Octave Forge (yet). The Homepage is currently just the GitHub repo, > https://github.com/apjanke/octave-tablicious. (If a GitHub repo isn't > acceptable for this, let me know and I'll whip up a proper little web site > for it.) Marius fixed this: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/687bb3f4fd32e4c3f7a43c84728b6fcfc4465046
