Hi Julien and Carlo, Le lundi 25 mai 2020 à 21:27 +0000, Carlo De Falco a écrit : > I am the current maintainer of the MPI package for Octave and also > a contributor to Octave core development. > > > Il giorno 25 mag 2020, alle ore 22:27, Julien Bect <julien.bect@centralesupelec.fr> ha scritto: > > > > A fork of octave-mpi, more actively maintained, is available here at [1] > > Yes, Julien, thanks: maintainance for the MPI package has actually never stopped, it was just > moved to the different repository at [1]. > > Having two versions of the package at OctaveForge and on github was creating confusion downstream > as discussed here [2] with the Cygwin packager. That's why I suggested to mark the Octave-Forge > package as unmaintained. > > > and, according to [2], the latest release from is working with Octave 5.1. > > I tend to make a new release after each Octave-core update to maintain compatibility [3], but > the current MPI package version (3.1.0) is confirmed to be compatible with the current stable Octave version (5.2), > with the upcoming (6.x) release and with the bleading-edge development branch (7.x), > so this one should be working for quite a while ... > > > Perhaps should you consider using this repo now, instead of the deprecated one on OF ? > > If anything needs to be changed in the package in order to simplify downstream distribution > feel free to let me know directly or via the issue tracker on github. Thanks to both of you for pointing me to the new repository, and to Carlo for maintaining the package. I have just updated the Debian package so that it now follows Carlo’s repository on Github. Best, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://sebastien.villemot.name ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ https://www.debian.org
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