On 14 Aug 2011, at 03:03, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > Follow-up Comment #1, bug #34010 (project octave): > > Sigh... > > The symbolic package is unmaintained, and even if it were maintained, it's not > a core Octave package, supposedly maintained by a different team than the > present one to which you are reporting the bug. > > Nobody in Ubuntu, as far as I know, is watching the Octave bug reports, > although I take a peek every few months to see what's up. So the Ubuntu bug > reports about Octave are mostly a black hole. > > So I don't have much consolation for you. Even when the symbolic package does > work (the Debian packages do work; no idea why the Ubuntu packages don't > work), I find it pretty useless. Octave isn't meant for symbolic computation, > and if you really do need it, I think you're better off using GiNaC directly > which the package wraps. > > I think you're on your own. I'm trying to fix at least one of these problems, > namely, that you are reporting the bug to theh "wrong" people (Octave-Forge > packages supposedly have their own mailing list and bug reports separate from > core Octave).
I moved this report to the Octave-Forge bug tracker at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=102888&aid=3391328&group_id=2888 but, as Jordi said, nobody is currently maintaining the symbolic package, so, unless a new volunteer shows up, the bug isn't likely to be fixed any time soon. You might want also to consider maxima <http://maxima.sourceforge.net/> for doing symbolic computations. c. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FREE DOWNLOAD - uberSVN with Social Coding for Subversion. Subversion made easy with a complete admin console. Easy to use, easy to manage, easy to install, easy to extend. Get a Free download of the new open ALM Subversion platform now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
