eigs and ARPACK

[Thomas Treichl]

John W. Eaton schrieb:
> On  3-Dec-2008, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> 
> |   It was just pointed out on the Octave-Forge list that ARPACK seems to
> | have been released under a standard BSD license [1]. Doesn't this mean
> | that we can move the code from the 'arpack' package into core Octave,
> | which would give us the 'eigs' and 'svds' functions?
> | 
> | Søren
> | 
> | [1] http://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK/RiceBSD.txt
> 
> Yes, this is great news.  Would someone like to prepare a patch?

Just a question, the tarball 3.1.51 now is quite old. Would it be possible to 
create a 3.1.52 tarball before adding another dependency to Octave? I'd like to 
prepare an 3.1.52 binary marked 'unstable' for Mac somewhen soon, so that people 
could have a look at it if all the previous dependencies that have been applied 
since 3.0.x just work on their machines and maybe they also join further 
development then if their release is a little bit newer?

Regards,

   Thomas