Parallel and MPI with default branch

[Sebastian Schöps]

Dear Carlo, dear Olaf, 

do you guys have versions of the parallel and mpi package ready that work with 
the default branch? Are you actively maintaining the packages?

* parallel does not compile, see e.g.
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52877
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51197

* the official 1.2.0 mpi (from octave-forge) does not compile with default, 
albeit recently updated (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52766). However, the 
forked (?) 2.0 version from Milano (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45294) also 
fails during compilation. First error is
MPI_Recv.cc:79:15: error: no matching function for call to 'MPI_Get_count'.

I want to run some parallel simulations these days and would be glad to use 
either of the two packages.

Bye
Sebastian