[Octave-task-tracker] [task #12561] forge: conflicts due to strsplit

[Carnë Draug]

Follow-up Comment #4, task #12561 (project octave):

This task tracker forces a deadline so just ignore that field. In hindsight,
maybe I should have reported this as a bug instead.

The following packages still have a copy of the old strsplit:

* ncarray (nccoord)
* miscellaneous (read_options)
* dataframe (dataframe.m ,private/df_name2idx, and private/df_matassign)
* fixed (fixedpoint)
* system-identification (mutualinf, pspec_me)
* plot (dxfwrite)
* gsl (test_ellint and test_hyperg)

I wouldn't consider copying the old file a fix, it was a workaround for
unmaintained packages.  It also means that someone working on that package not
knowing about that private file won't be able to use the core strsplit.

In some of the cases above, they might not even make use of the old strsplit
features so maybe it's not needed at all. Still requires someone going through
the functions.

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