From bug-request at octave dot org Tue Nov 22 20:39:56 2005
Subject: Re: trigonometric and hyperbolic functions
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: William Poetra Yoga H <williampoetra at yahoo dot com>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:37:17 -0500

On 22-Nov-2005, William Poetra Yoga H wrote:

| How about distributing GSL with Octave?

I'd rather not do that, since it is more work for us to include
external packages in the distribution.  Should we also include copies
of ATLAS, fftw, ufsparse, etc.?

| Alternatively, since GSL is licensed under the GPL and is quite
| modular (according to the authors), we can just take a few files
| that we need and link them into Octave (or maybe libcruft?).

This is also a maintenance problem, so I'd rather avoid it.

Yes, Octave does currently include some external software, but I'd
like to minimize that if possible, and perhaps even eliminate some of
the things that are currently included.

jwe



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