Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Oliver Heimlich
> To: octave-maintainers
> Cc: 
> Date: 2015/4/11, Sat 08:49
> Subject: Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages
> 
> 
> 
> On 10.04.2015 22:05, JohnD wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>  -----Original Message-----
>>>  From: carandraug On Behalf Of
>>>  Carnë Draug
>>>  Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 7:13 AM
>>>  To: John Donoghue
>>>  Cc: octave-maintainers; Mike Miller
>>>  Subject: Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages
>>> 
>>>  On 6 April 2015 at 23:31, John Donoghue 
> 
>>>  wrote:
>>>>  On 04/06/2015 06:16 PM, address@hidden wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Message: 4
>>>>>  Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 21:17:38 +0100
>>>>>  From: Carn? Draug
>>>>>  To: Mike Miller>
>>>>>  Cc: Octave Maintainers
>>>>>  Subject: Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages
>>>>>  Message-ID:
>>>>> 
>>>>>  <CAPOrs_1RNATmWYF9unM6NW7QDUxtJT24G-
>>>  address@hidden>
>>>>>  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>>>>> 
>>>>>  On 15 March 2015 at 15:04, Mike 
> Miller  wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  [...]
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  The imminent Octave 4.0.0 release will be the first to 
> supply an
>>>>>>>  official binary distribution of Octave for Windows 
> operating systems.
>>>>>>>  This distribution will include a set of Octave Forge 
> packages that
>>>>>>>  may be installed at the user's option. This is why 
> we would like to
>>>>>>>  have compatible packages ready to incorporate into the 
> next release
>>>>>>>  candidate for further testing.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Can users that have installed Octave with such installer then 
> install
>>>>>  more packages and other versions of those packages?
>>>>> 
>>>>>  If we are starting to distribute binaries of Octave core, would 
> be
>>>>>  nice if we can also distribute binaries for the packages, 
> specially
>>>>>  since the release cycle of core and OF is quite different.
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Carn?
>> 
>>  I just tried installing all of packages that currently in the active list 
> on octave forge in Windows using octave 4.0.0 rc2   (32 bit)
>>  This is trying to install on the windows machine, not attempting cross 
> compile, using what is available as the 'current' package on 
> octave-forge.
>>  Heres the following results:
> 
> I can confirm your observations. I did an installation on Win 7 64bit 
> and additionally did some “pkg test”ing. Unfortunately only few packages 
> contain sufficient tests and allow an assessment. Here are my results 
> (didn't check them against known bugs):
> 
>>  bim  1.1.5      - OK
> PASS 92, FAIL 0
> 15 (of 47) .m files have no tests.
>>  cgi  0.1.0     - OK
> 6 (of 6) .m files have no tests.
>>  communications  1.2.1 -     OK - warns unusable help found
> PASS 457, FAIL 0
> 19 (of 115) .m files have no tests.
>>  control 2.8.0    - OK
> PASS 317, FAIL 13
> 229 (of 287) .m files have no tests.
>>  database  2.3.1     - OK
> PASS 0, FAIL 1 (should be expected)
> 5 (of 6) .m files have no tests.
>>  dataframe  1.1.0     - OK
> PASS 3, FAIL 9
> 101 (of 101) .m files have no tests.
>>  data-smoothing  1.3.0     - OK
> 4 (of 4) .m files have no tests.
>>  dicom      0.1.1    - FAILED - Error with octave_map - Bug #44624
> -
>>  divand  1.1.2    - OK
> PASS 1, FAIL 0
> 115 (of 116) .m files have no tests.
>>  econometrics 1.1.1     - OK
> 28 (of 28) .m files have no tests.
>>  fem-fenics  0.0.3  - FAILED - requires eigen3 lib in mxe-octave, so 
> currently an expected failure
> -
>>  financial 0.4.0     - OK
> PASS 158, FAIL 9
> 23 (of 57) .m files have no tests.
>>  fits 1.0.5      - OK
> No m-files for testing.
>>  fl-core 1.0.0     - FAILED - has been patched in mxe-octave - Bug #41214
> -
>>  fpl  1.3.4     - OK
> PASS 0, FAIL 5 (failed calls to deprecated function files)
> 10 (of 10) .m files have no tests.
>>  fuzzy-logic-toolkit 0.4.4     - OK - warning about continuation markers 
> depreciated
> I did not see a warning?!
> 50 (of 50) .m files have no tests.
>>  ga 0.10.0     - OK    - lots of warning about continuation markers 
> depreciated
> I did not see a warning?!
> PASS 79, FAIL 0
> 16 (of 22) .m files have no tests.
>>  general  1.3.4     - OK
> PASS 25, FAIL 0, XFAIL 1
> 24 (of 28) .m files have no tests.
>>  generate_html 0.1.7    - OK
> 8 (of 8) .m files have no tests.
>>  geometry 1.7.0     - OK     - warning on printf args - warn on cant cleanup 
> after self
> I can confirm the printf warnings only.
> PASS 282, FAIL 3 (missing python, should be expected)
> 188 (of 233) .m files have no tests.
>>  image   2.4.0     - OK
> PASS 631, FAIL 5, XFAIL 21
> 54 (of 137) .m files have no tests.
>>  image-acquisition 0.2.1    - FAILED -  requires v4l library no in 
> mxe-octave so expected
> -
>>  instrument-control 0.2.1    - OK
> 27 (of 27) .m files have no tests
>>  interval  0.1.5    - OK
> PASS 7264, FAIL 0, XFAIL 18
> 0 (of 249) .m files have no tests.
>>  io 2.2.7        - OK
> PASS 11, FAIL 0
> 30 (of 32) .m files have no tests.
>>  java          - part of core now not tried
> -
>>  level-set  0.2.0    - OK
> Compile Warning: -fPIC ignored for target
> PASS 198, FAIL 6 ('ls_copy_sign' undefined errors)
> 2 (of 31) .m files have no tests.
>>  linear-algebra  2.2.2     -OK    - warnings on abstract class types
> Several warnings during compile:  writing file 'C:\.octave_hist': 
> Permission denied
> PASS 19, FAIL 1 (function 'fsin' not found)
> 57 (of 69) .m files have no tests.
>>  lssa  0.1.2    - OK
> PASS 16, FAIL 0
> 0 (of 7) .m files have no tests.
>>  ltfat  2.0.1     - FAILED      - 'cc' not found - patched in mxe. - 
> bug #43603
> -
>>  mechanics 1.3.1     - FAILED     - install failure  Bug #44804
> -
>>  miscellaneous 1.2.1    - OK
> PASS 384, FAIL 9 (strsplit errors)
> 16 (of 30) .m files have no tests.
>>  mpi 1.2.0     - FAILED     - mxe has no mpi lib, so expected
> -
>>  msh 1.0.10    - OK
> PASS 28, FAIL 1 (the gmesh subprocess exited abnormally)
> 9 (of 21) .m files have no tests.
>>  mvn 1.1.0    - OK
> PASS 1, FAIL 0
> 18 (of 19) .m files have no tests.
>>  nan 2.7.1     - OK    - warning -fPIC, shadow core funcs
> Warnings during Compile:
> ls: /usr/local/: No such file or directory
> ls: /bin/mexext: No such file or directory
> PASS 31, FAIL 0
> 65 (of 81) .m files have no tests.
>>  ncarray  1.0.3     - OK
> 45 (of 45) .m files have no tests.
>>  netcdf 1.0.6    - OK
> Several warnings during compile: error: writing file 
> 'C:\.octave_hist': 
> Permission denied
> 10 (of 10) .m files have no tests.
>>  nurbs 1.3.9     - FAILED     - matrix_value - bug #44651
> -
>>  ocs  0.1.3     - OK    - continuation marker warnings
> Can't install, depends on odepkg
>>  octcdf 1.1.8    - OK
> Several warnings during compile: error: writing file 
> 'C:\.octave_hist': 
> Permission denied
> PASS 23, FAIL 0
> 30 (of 31) .m files have no tests.
>>  octclip 1.0.3     - OK    - printf format warnings
> PASS 5, FAIL 0
> 0 (of 1) .m files have no tests.
>>  octproj 1.1.2     - FAILED     - mxe-octave needs libproj, so expected 
> failure
> -
>>  odepkg  0.8.4     - FAILED    -  octave_map - bug #44594
> -
>>  optics 0.1.1    - DONE
> PASS 166, FAIL 2 (%!test should be %!error)
> 0 (of 43) .m files have no tests.
>>  optim 1.4.1    - DONE
> PASS 16, FAIL 0
> 49 (of 54) .m files have no tests.
>>  optiminterp 0.3.4    - DONE
> Several warnings during compile: error: writing file 
> 'C:\.octave_hist': 
> Permission denied
> 9 (of 9) .m files have no tests.
>>  parallel 2.2.1     - FAILED     - bug #41148
> -
>>  quaternion 2.4.0    - OK
> PASS 23, FAIL 0
> 60 (of 76) .m files have no tests.
>>  queueing 1.2.3    - OK
> PASS 261, FAIL 4 ('sumexpn' undefined, and low tolerances), XFAIL 3
> 23 (of 101) .m files have no tests.
>>  secs1d 0.0.9     - OK
> 5 (of 5) .m files have no tests.
>>  secs2d 0.0.8     - FAILED     - Octave_map error Bug #44803
> -
>>  secs3d 0.0.1    - OK
> 39 (of 39) .m files have no tests.
>>  signal 1.3.1    - OK
> PASS 469, FAIL 3
> 78 (of 146) .m files have no tests.
>>  sockets 1.2.0    - OK
> No m-files for testing
>>  specfun 1.1.0    - OK     - warnings on some shadows funcs
> I did not see the warnings?!
> PASS 6, FAIL 0
> 17 (of 19) .m files have no tests.
>>  splines 1.2.7    - OK
> PASS 75, FAIL 0
> 5 (of 12) .m files have no tests.
>>  statistics 1.2.4    - OK
> PASS 219, FAIL 25 (this really looks bad)
> 52 (of 117) .m files have no tests.
>>  stk 2.2.0    - OK
> PASS 576, FAIL 348 (many failed because of undefined variables)
> 82 (of 222) .m files have no tests.
>>  strings 1.1.0     - FAILED     - pcre - Bug #44640
> -
>>  struct 1.0.11    - OK
> PASS 9, FAIL 0, XFAIL 1
> 0 (of 3) .m files have no tests.
>>  symbolic 2.1.0    - OK
> Unable to test (popen2: process creation failed)
>>  tsa  4.2.9    - OK     - warn on shadows a core lib function
> Warnings during compile:
> ls: /usr/local/: No such file or directory
> ls: /bin/mexext: No such file or directory
> PASS 17, FAIL 0
> 50 (of 55) .m files have no tests.
>>  vrml 1.0.13     - OK    - warnings on continuation markers
> I did not see the warnings?!
> 44 (of 44) .m files have no tests.
>>  windows 1.2.1    - FAILED     - Array compile errors - Bug #44180
> -
> 
> 
> Summing up the current versions of Octave Forge packages I get the 
> following impression. Please don't take the categories too serious, 
> because I have no detailed knowledge of most packages. I just ran the tests.
> 
> 4.0 COMPATIBLE
> -bim
> -communications
> -ga
> -geometry
> -interval
> -level-set (under the assumption that tests are deprecated)
> -lssa
> -msh (under the assumption that tests are deprecated)
> -nan
> -octcdf
> -octclip
> -optics
> -splines
> -struct
> 
> DEPRECATED
> -java
> 
> NOT INSTALLABLE
> -dicom
> -fem-fenics
> -fl-core
> -image-acquisition
> -ltfat
> -mechanics
> -mpi
> -nurbs
> -ocs
> -octproj
> -odepkg
> -parallel
> -secs2d
> -strings
> -windows
> 
> SERIOUS TEST FAILURES
> -control
> -dataframe
> -financial
> -image
> -miscellaneous
> -queueing
> -signal
> -statistics
> -stk
> 
> UNKNOWN (INSUFFICIENT TESTS)
> -cgi
> -database
> -data-smoothing
> -divand
> -econometrics
> -fits
> -fpl
> -fuzzy-logic-toolkit
> -general
> -generate_html
> -instrument-control
> -io
> -linear-algebra
> -mvn
> -nan
> -ncarray
> -netcdf
> -optim
> -optiminterp
> -quaternion
> -secs1d
> -secs3d
> -sockets
> -specfun
> -symbolic (I was unable to test)
> -tsa
> -vrml
> 
> 
> Oliver


Oliver


Would you mind to try patched version odepkg-0.8.4 for octave v4 on my website:
http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/octave/Eng/odepkg/


I have confirmed that can be installed on octave-4.0.0-rc2 binary.

Tatsuro