[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #65461] Can't install MVApack package

[Nicholas Jankowski]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #65461 (group octave):

in the meantime, from the error message your reported, I suspect the issue is
on the package side.

"function called with too many inputs" is an error message introduced after
version 7.1 with this change:
https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/b0b80efecea1

See https://octave.org/NEWS-7.html
"Calling a user-defined function with too many inputs or outputs is now an
error. The interpreter makes this check automatically."

It means that you called a function with more inputs than that function was
designed to take.  What's unclear is what the "pre-install" function is trying
to do. It could be that an octave function definition changed and the package
is still trying to call it the old way, or it could mean that a package
function is making an internal function call with excess arguments and that
was allowed to slide in old versions.

In any case, we're guessing without access to the code or participation of the
package maintainers.


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