Re: Problems to use symbolic first time

[Colin Macdonald]

On 2017-11-05 04:27 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 04, 2017 at 18:50:44 -0400, Nicholas Jankowski wrote:
> > Colin: I thought installing Symbolic was supposed to throw an error if
> > python wasn't installed. No?
>
> It was changed from an install time test to a runtime test for Python.
> Yes, this means you can now install the package and think everything is
> fine until you try to use it.

Thank you both for helping with this thread!

Mike is right on both counts.  The decision for a run-time test was made 
at https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy/issues/413, in part because of 
issues on Windows and Mac.

> > And I thought the lc
> > line 123 perl warnings were cleaned up with a patch...no?
>
> There is a patch but it needs to be applied to Perl. Perl is part of the
> msys project that Octave's Windows build is built with.
>
> These warnings will be cleaned up when we either update to msys2, update
> Perl some other way, or patch the ancient version of Perl that we are
> using.

+1, would love to see this fixed.

Colin