Curent OF statistics package is broken

[JuanPi]

Hi all (I guess this is mainly Olaf),

The current repository version of the statistics packages completely
fails to install in my system, and the Makefile makes a lot of
assumptions about my workflow that are wrong.

1. It doesn't install the functions from octave core, this makes e.g.
violin function to fail. I can give more detailed information ot help
you fix this for my system. But why not just install those functions?
Why the extra complexity? It seems unjustified to me.

Also, the install option for make is ignoring my octaverc file where I
define the places where packages should go (yes, it just polluted my
home folder!). Why would you do this?

In the same line why do set the "run" with no history and norc! If I
am testing the package I want to do it in my usual octave environment!

I am sure you have a very professional justifications for all this,
but it just doesn't work here. I am not a professional developer and I
can't see why I should spend more effort to just stick to somebody
else workflow.

I strongly suggest we stick to simpler more user-friendly makefiles
like the one in signal.
And we need to release this package soon!

Regards,



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