Re: qrupdate - advice sought

[Thomas Weber]

Am Freitag, den 09.01.2009, 13:00 +0100 schrieb Soren Hauberg:
> fre, 09 01 2009 kl. 12:40 +0100, skrev Jaroslav Hajek:
> > I would like Octave to take advantage of these improvements.
> > Subsequently, I want to use them to further improve fsolve, lsqnonneg,
> > and possibly (in less immediate future) implement other optimization
> > routines that can benefit.
> > 
> > Now, what is the best way to proceed?
> > 
> > 1. Refresh and keep maintaining a copy of qrupdate under libcruft/ in 
> > Octave.
> > 2. Remove libcruft/qrupdate and require qrupdate to be linked.
> > 
> > 1 is simpler. If we strive to get rid of some or all of libcruft
> > eventually, then maybe 2 is better, but it will make another (weak)
> > dependency.
> 
> The problem with a library such as qrupdate is that no distributions are
> packing it at the moment. So, I'd say put it in libcruft for now, and
> remove it once distributions start packing it. Of course if nobody is
> packing it in a year, then I think we should remove it from libcruft to
> force distributions into packing it.

The number of distributions that are keen on packaging Fortran libraries
is probably zero. Good luck in forcing them.

        Thomas