Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Aug-2008, Levente Torok wrote:

| Perheps because Function cov() works differently on matlab and on
| octave, 

In what way?  Has this been discussed before?

| Alois Schloegl and Matthew W. Roberts replaced the octave version with its 
own version in 
| the extra/nan-1.0.6 package.
| In the installation README file, the authors suggests us to completely 
overwrite 
| the original /m/statistics/base/*.m,*.oct files.
| This can be seen as an obstructive and collabortive act on behalf of 
octave-forgers.

I think we should discourage people writing packages from replacing
core functions.  But I don't see that we can stop them from doing it.

Perhaps Octave should warn about duplicate functions in the load-path?

jwe