Re: 5.1.0 pre-release

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 11:51 AM Mohammed Elmusrati
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> Thank you very much for your great efforts.
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> I have installed the prelease of octave 5.1. The installation went fine 
> (Windows 10). However, I received errors during packages installation. For 
> example when tried to install signal packages I received long list of errors 
> (given at the end of this email.
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> I think in future, it would be great if the way of packages installation has 
> been changed to avoid some critical weaknesses like:
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1 - there is currently an open project on reworking the package
management system, and there is a regular review of what functions
belong in core octave versus a package.  If I recall correctly I
believe some recent changes to ode, image, and statistics functions
were the subject of that.

2 - did you install the release (5.1) or pre-release (5.0.91)?

3 - why did you need to install the signal package?  it comes
pre-installed with the Windows builds. I also believe some packages
have trouble building on Windows systems, which is why they have a
pre-installed set.  see:
https://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Microsoft_Windows