Re: specfun release ? [WAS: laguerre.m functions in specfun package]

[Colin Macdonald]

On 29/04/15 18:35, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> Colin (symbolic package author) can explain best why there's a need for
> the overhauled heaviside.m and dirac.m to not live in symbolic; his
> original aim was to get them in core. In fact he did in his OP in
> https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/index.php?8644  I'm not sure if .m
> functions in an OF package can be called with a handle (Colin's motive
> AFAIU); .oct functions in an OF package can.

Perhaps I should try to clarify this point:

0.  Forget about the OF Symbolic pkg.  :-)

1.  I maintain some code generation stuff in SymPy
    that generates Octave .m file code.  I.e., to do
    scientific computing with one's CAS output.

2.  That code needs to map heaviside and dirac into
    Octave code.

So my feeling was its an "Octave code generator" not an "Octave + 
Symbolic pkg code generator".  I guess I also feel its not an "Octave + 
Specfun pkg code generator" either.

But this is all pretty minor stuff to me---especially since I already 
merged the support in SymPy---as long as its somewhere and *maintained* 
(which IMHO is Carnë's motivation too).

Colin