Re: [Octave Forge] Octave 4.0 call for packages

[Daniel Kraft]

Hi!

On 2015-04-07 20:47, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> Mike Miller-4 wrote
>> The same logic as above applies, they still exist in
>> specfun because no one has made a new release of the package to remove
>> those functions since being added to core. I mentioned earlier in
>> another thread that I would be in favor of dropping the entire specfun
>> package now.
> 
> The specfun package contains several functions that appear to be useful. 
> I'm not against a new release w/o the shadowing functions as long as the
> rest isn't harmful.

Exactly -- I, for instance, have specfun installed for "lambertw".  I
needed it already for two (different) things.  As far as I can tell, it
is not available in core yet.

Unless *all* those functions are ported to core, I think the specfun
package should remain.

Yours,
Daniel

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