Re: statistics 1.4.0 release

[John Donoghue]

On 06/18/2018 12:23 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 05/19/2018 05:18 AM, John Donoghue wrote:
> > A new release of Statistics package has been made on Octave forge
> > and is available for download. [1]
> >
> > Changes in this version include the conditional install of the 
> > statistics function removed from Octave 4.4.
> >
> > See the news file for full changes in this release. [2]
> >
> >
> > [1] https://octave.sourceforge.io/statistics/index.html
> > [2] https://octave.sourceforge.io/statistics/NEWS.html
>
> I'm starting to look at updating the Fedora octave-statistics package 
> to 1.4.0.  It appears that the addition of a configure script triggers 
> octave to treat it as an arch-specific package even though there are 
> no compiled binaries.  Is there any desire to try to avoid this?
There needed to be a way detect if being installed in a cross compiled 
environment, installed for windows and then install a number of 
functions conditionally on whether they already exist in octave.

I dont know of any plans to change it if it works, however if someone 
comes up with a better method ...