Re: Release 4.4.0 and statistics package

[Olaf Till]

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.)

Olaf

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