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bug #41390: strings package: incompatible with and fails to install in Octave 4.0

Submitter:  Markus Appel <mappel>
Submitted:  Wed 29 Jan 2014 04:17:02 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave Package Severity:  2 - Minor
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Installation Failure
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * other Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Sun 31 May 2015 05:22:56 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Actually this is now fixed in the strings package mercurial repo, just needs someone to care enough about strings to make a release of the package.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
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Sun 31 May 2015 05:18:29 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Moreover, the strings package cannot even be installed in Octave 4.0, the install fails because of the invalid strjoin function.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
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Wed 29 Jan 2014 04:17:02 PM UTC, original submission:  

After updating to 3.8.0 I encountered the following error:


octave:4> legend({'test'},'location','northeast')
error: invalid value = northeast
error: set: invalid value for radio property "location" (value = northeast)
error: called from:
error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.8.0/m/plot/appearance/legend.m at line 995, column 11


Reason for this error: The strings package 1.1.0 was still installed and overloaded the new strjoin core function with the incompatible version from the forge package, so legend failed in str-joining the allowed values for the location property. I only had the strings package installed to use strjoin, so I do not need it any more and removed it from my installation - works for me.

But for those who want/need to keep using the package, strjoin should be removed in a new release (soon), if the package doesn't get deleted/merged as discussed on the maintainers mailing list.

Markus Appel <mappel>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2015-05-31 mtmiller StatusConfirmed Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2015-05-31 mtmiller Severity3 - Normal 2 - Minor
        Item GroupRegression Installation Failure
        StatusNone Confirmed
        Release3.8.0 other
        Operating SystemGNU/Linux Any
        Summarystrings-1.1.0 strjoin incompatiblity breaks core function (e.g. legend) strings package: incompatible with and fails to install in Octave 4.0

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