Re: Release 4.4.0 and statistics package

[Olaf Till]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 02:39:45PM -0800, Rik wrote:
> On 01/04/2018 02:29 PM, Arno Onken wrote:
> > On 28.12.2017 17:48, Olaf Till 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.)
> > Thanks, Olaf, that would be great!  Sorry for the late reply.  I took up
> > a new job recently and am terribly busy at the moment.
> >
> > Arno
> Olaf,
> 
> I'll wait a couple of days and then remove the functions from Octave core. 
> You can always retrieve them from a Mercurial version in which they haven't
> been deleted for copying in to the statistics package.  The header will
> need to change because right now it says "## This file is part of Octave."

Brute force -- _all_ Octave statistics functions are now in the OF
statistics package (with the changes to the license text as indicated
above, thanks) and will be installed if needed. We can weed out some
of them still.

No renaming/deprecating is done as yet, this can be done later.

Cross-compilation is cared for, but needs manual configuration as
indicated by an error message or in the README.crosscompilation file.

Olaf

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