minpack code for least squares?

[Jaroslav Hajek]

hello,

I've noticed that Octave includes the Powell's hybrid method from
MINPACK for its fsolve function.
Since MINPACK also features nonlinear least squares (via trust-region
approach), I suggest
including also that relevant part of MINPACK (lmder,lmdif etc) and
wrap it in a counterpart to
fsolve (with similar interface) to do nonlinear least squares. I'd
volunteer for the project.

What do you think?

-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz