Re: Octave/Win32 update

[David Bateman]

address@hidden wrote:
> > I would like to request that we not distribute add-ons that replace
> > functions that are already found in Octave without at least letting
> > the user know that this has happened. If the functions in Octave
> > Forge that use the same names as functions that are already in Octave
> > are better than the ones in Octave, then we should work to include
> > them in the core Octave distribution to eliminate the duplication.
>  
> Regarding this, the installer contains a small description of each
> package, which is shown when the user moves the mouse over
> the package item. This description is automatically extracted from
> the DESCRIPTION files, as found in the octave-forge source tree.
>  
> To avoid manual work, is it imaginable to put this additional info
> (that fact that a package will shadow regular octave functions) in
> those DESCRIPTION files?
>  
> Michael.
>  
Yes, it makes sense... Please propose (or apply) a patch..

D.

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