Re: Important bugs

[John W. Eaton]

On 04/08/2018 12:17 AM, Avinoam wrote:
> Dear Maintainers,
>
> There are some Octave bugs that prevent the usage of external packages (such
> as chebfun or mexopencv). Some of them are:
>
> 1.      Bug #51709: Creating function handle to static methods [1]
> 2.      Bug#39257: handles to nested functions are not yet supported [2]
> 3.      Bug#51960: mex or oct function in +package directory that shadows Octave
> function only works once [3]
>
> (bug 3 is also reression wrt 4.2.2).
> I have changed their severity to "4-Important", and I hope they will be
> fixed before 4.4
>
> Thanks,
>
> Avinoam
>
> [1] http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51709
> [2] http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39257
> [3] http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51960

I'm looking at the third item now.  I don't think the other two can be 
fixed for the release as the changes for those are probably too 
extensive.  Also, I don't think those features have ever worked in 
Octave, but the third item is a regression.

jwe