Re: Which octave version for Fedora EPEL7?

[John W. Eaton]

On 01/12/2014 02:14 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Octave maintainers and Fedora packagers -
>
>   I've just requested an EPEL7 branch for octave.  The question next to
> be answered is what version of octave to build for this - 3.8.X or to
> wait for 4.0.  Since we do not break API/ABI in EPEL this choice will be
> around for a long time (e.g. we are on 3.0 in EPEL5 and 3.4 in EPEL6).
>
> So I guess what would be helpful from the octave developers would be:
>
> - Any ETA for 4.0?

I don't know.  When it's ready?  It certainly won't be just a few weeks. 
 I'd hope for less than 6 months, but my predictions about these kinds 
of things are usually way off.

> - Is 4.0 likely to be API/ABI compatible with 3.8?

No, probably not.

jwe