eigs and ARPACK

[dbateman at fladenmuller.org]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:53:13AM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  3-Dec-2008, S?ren 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?
> | 
> | S?ren
> | 
> | [1] http://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK/RiceBSD.txt
> 
> Yes, this is great news.  Would someone like to prepare a patch?

This one I can do as this is my code and I've always wanted it in the 
core

D.

> 
> jwe
>