On 2/15/12 2:15 PM, Carnë Draug wrote: > On 15 February 2012 18:19, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> When packaging Octave Forge packages for Fink, I have been removing >> functions that shadow identically-named functions in Octave core, since >> normally the situation has been that the package is older than the >> particular Octave release (e.g. 3.4.3 or 3.6.0), and I assumed that >> these functions had been subsumed into Octave core in identical form. >> >> Would it be preferable for me _not_ to do this, however? > > Some packages shadow core functions on purpose. This is the case of > fstat in statistics and great part of the NaN package. > >> Or maybe only >> do it when the m-file or oct-file in a package is _identical_ to what is >> in Octave core? I'll admit that I didn't do exhaustive testing of >> whether what I was removing was indeed identical to what was in core. > > I guess every case is a case. If you could report every case on the > mailing list we could help looking into it and at the same time we'd > become aware of this. This is specially true for packages without > maintainer that haven't seen a new release in a long time. > > Carnë
Aha, those were some of the exact cases that came to mind. I'll restore them to their respective packages. Thanks. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
