eigs and ARPACK

[John W. Eaton]

On  4-Dec-2008, Thomas Treichl wrote:

| 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?

I've posted a few times already about wanting to make a new snapshot
but I have hesitated to do it because there have been some regressions
since 3.0.x that I would prefer to have fixed first.  I can't remember
precisely what they were now.  I think some were plotting related.
Maybe now all of thoese problems are fixed.  Also, at this point I
think we should work through the backlog of pending patches and bug
reports prior to making a new snapshot.  In any case, I'd like to
start having more regular snapshots, so any help with the pending bug
reports and patches (mostly reviewing them) would be helpful.

Thanks,

jwe