Re: [OctDev] Test web-site of new octave-forge web-site including allpackages

[Paul Kienzle]

On Oct 11, 2006, at 3:13 PM, David Bateman wrote:

> Michael Creel wrote:
> > Maybe reducing the number of packages makes at this time. The stuff in
> > Econometrics could go into Statistics, since MLE is well known 
> > generally
> > and GMM is just another name for minimum Chi-square estimation.
> > Michael
>
> I think there are many other potential changes of a similar nature
> including splitting up the miscellaneous and general packages, making 
> an
> xml package that includes all of the existing tools, etc. However, I
> must admit we went the route of simplicity and converted the current
> octave-forge directory structure directly into packages. Feel free to 
> do
> what you think is necessary to rationalize the situation...

In practice we will have packages by different authors c
overing different parts of the same domains.  I think the
only reasonable long term solution is another level of
hierarchy.  Also, packages such as statistics will become
enormous if they include everything.

- Paul