On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Thomas Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 06:27:24AM +0100, Michael Creel wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Thomas Weber >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:12:10AM +0100, Michael Creel wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> Would there be objection to my moving samin and bfgsmin from optim to >> >> econometrics? It's not the natural location, but econometrics depends >> >> on those two functions, and moving them will allow me to make releases >> >> of econometrics independently when releases of optim are made. >> > >> > I don't quite understand. Do you need to change the two functions? >> > >> > BTW, there was a short mention of PelicanHPC in the 03/10 issue of the >> > German Linux Magazin. I guess congratulations are in order. >> > >> > Thomas >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, >> > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW >> > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Octave-dev mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev >> > >> >> Occasionally, yes, I make changes, though by now both bfgsmin and >> samin are pretty stable. If I put them in econmetrics, then I know >> that they will be up to date when I make a release of the econometrics >> package. > > Yes, but that sort of defeats the purpose of the packages. I see several > possible problems here: > 1) You change the interface of one the functions. This might be good for > you, but other users will have to change their code to cope with the new > interface. > 2) In order to get these functions, they need to install a package they > don't care at all about. > >> It seems to me that the optim package may not get regular releases. If >> released versions of optim and econometrics get out of sync, problems >> could occur. > > Yes, but that's problem number 1). Fixed for you, but a problem on other > users. > > Thomas >
True. I put the functions where they are back in the days when o-f was a monolithic package, so everything got released all at once. I'm concerned that with the new setup, a package like optim may not get released for long periods of time. I can't take on the job.. Cheers, Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
