>
> I can understand this viewpoint. However, I must say it seems wrong to
> maintain to versions of the same function. As you have already seen,
> this leads to situations where bugs are fixed in one version but not in
> another.
>
> Does anybody have thoughts on how we should deal with this situation?
>
I totally agree that this is a tricky situation, but removing it would leave
some users stranded.
I'm not 100% clear what the process of installation of a package is like,
but couldn't the installation of function prctile be made dependent upon its
absence in the Octave base? Like, can a package contain a script that is
executed on install, which checks for the prior existence of each function
in the statistics package?
:) Michael
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