Re: shadowed functions in octave-forge

[Carnë Draug]

On 6 November 2011 15:47, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> When installing packages, I often run into problems resulting from attempting 
> to install on a too old or too new version of Octave.  I don't have any good 
> suggestions for how to avoid such problems in all cases.
>
> However, in this instance ... perhaps a more robust approach is to check for 
> the core version when installing the package, and only install the package 
> version if the core function is absent?

But in this case, fstat from core was introduced in 3.2 and deprecated
in 3.4. Also fstat from statistics package is the one compatible with
MatLab.

Carnë