Re: adopting functions from Octave-forge

[Quentin Spencer]

John W. Eaton wrote:

> Is anyone maintaining a list of functions that have been moved from
> Octave to Octave-forge?  If so, where is it kept?  I'd like to add to
> it as more functions are adopted.
>  

Did you mean moved from octave-forge to octave?

> Ignoring sparse functions, we currently have the following overlap:
>
>  builtin   dispatch       hankel    mu2lin     randn       struct  
>  cellstr   dispatch_help  isa	     ndims	rmfield     tf2zp	    
>  char	    double         isequal   orient     setdiff     toeplitz
>  chol	    fieldnames     isfield   polyder    sortrows    tril	  
>  complex   full	   ismember  polyderiv  str2double  triu	  
>  deal	    gammaln        issparse  polygcd    strcmpi     unique  
>  detrend   gammaln        isunix    print	strmatch    unix	  
>  dispatch  grid	   lin2mu    rand	strncmp     zp2tf   
>
> Some of these may still be different in Octave-forge, so the list
> should also keep the current status of the function so that we don't
> end up with two diverging versions of each of these.
>  

Maybe we should use the wiki for this. However, I'm under the impression 
that the wiki has become much less active since the security was 
tightened. Maybe we need to consider a new way of dealing with it. 
Fedora Extras makes very good use of a wiki for collaborating on things. 
Users must create an account and have edit permission explicitly 
approved by someone. If the approval system for this were simple enough 
(moderator receives an e-mail with link to approve), I'm sure it 
wouldn't be too much of a burden to maintain.

-Quentin