Re: Revert mass exodus of statistics functions

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
> For the upcoming Octave version, we moved a bunch of Octave functions
> from core to the statistics Forge package.  We are also now planning
> on having a statistics package as part of core.
>
> This is already causing trouble because we don't a have a release of
> the forge package to cover the removed functions.  What if we revert
> that change and instead move the functions to the core package for 4.6
> release?  This would be less disruption to the end user and avoid the
> complications on the current forge package.
>
> Carnë
>

Shouldn't we first agree on the actual procedure for moving
function/packages. I think going unilateral here might disrupt the
small OF community that's already there. I suggest caution.
Will the 'core' packages will be a OF category?