Re: Release 4.4.0 and statistics package

[Philip Nienhuis]

Olaf Till-2 wrote
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 08:26:31AM -0800, Rik wrote:
>> On 12/28/2017 05:29 AM, Olaf Till wrote:
>> > On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 03:46:41PM -0800, Rik wrote:
>> >>  As part of that release, a lot of the statistics functions
>> >> are set to be removed from core Octave and transitioned to the
>> statistics
>> >> package.  How can this be coordinated?
>> > I'd suggest to add a src/Makefile.in with rules that generate these
>> > functions m-files only if the corresponding functions are lacking in
>> > the applicable installed Octave.
>> >
>> > If cross-compilation is detected by src/configure, the approach should
>> > be different, probably generating all these files without further
>> > checking (assuming cross-compilation is only done with new Octave
>> > versions).
>> >
>> > I could probably do that for Arno.
>> 
>> That sounds like an elegant solution.  I was just going to let people get
>> shadowed function warnings, but your way is better.
> 
> So I'll put this on my list for the next few days. (Still considering
> further suggestions, of course.)

Carnë did a similar thing for the mapping package as regards deg2rad.m and
rad2deg.m, that works regardless of cross-compiling or not but only checks
if the installed Octave has the functions available.
When cross-compiling in mxe-octave it gave rise to some issues but I think
JohnD dealt with that.

Philip




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