Removing control, finance and quaternion toolboxes

[David Bateman]

Søren Hauberg wrote:
> tir, 29 07 2008 kl. 17:36 +0200, skrev David Bateman:
>   
>> Well it really depends on the 3.2 release schedule.. You're talking a 
>> couple of months, so it probably makes sense to have one more 
>> octave-forge release for 3.0.x, probably at the time you release 3.0.2 
>> and then convert everything to support 3.1.x, and at that point these 
>> toolboxes can be added to octave-forge.. If you think its an issue that 
>> these toolboxes aren't available somewhere I suppose we can branch 
>> octave-forge now and apply the patch for these toolboxes on the branch, 
>> though I think it makes sense to avoid that if possible due to the 
>> division of work needed to support both trees.
>>     
>
> I'd really like to avoid having two branches in Octave-Forge. Can't we
> simply add the packages, and let them require Octave 3.1.50 or later?
>
> Søren
>
>
>   
Won't this cause issues for distributions? Also the control and finance 
packages already exist in octave-forge and I just added to them and so, 
by doing that the users would loose access for a 3.0.x version of octave 
to the existing finance and control functions..

D.


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