From bug-request at octave dot org Wed Nov 23 09:55:22 2005
Subject: Re: weibull functions
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
Cc: Ben Barrowes <barrowes at alum dot mit dot edu>, bug@octave.org
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:44:47 -0500

On 23-Nov-2005, Quentin Spencer wrote:

| If I recall correctly, there are other functions like this that have 
| been renamed for compatibility. When the new package system is in place, 
| why not create backward compatible wrapper functions for all of them, 
| take them out of the core octave distribution, and put them in a 
| compatibility package?

Currently there are wrapper functions with the old names are in the
"deprecated" directory.  Moving them to a separate package might be a
reasonable thing to do, but it is a separate question from whether we
should have

  weibull_*
  weib*
  wbl*

or skip the weib* names.  Did Matlab ever have those names, or was it
a mistake in the last renaming?  If Matlab did have those names, did
we get the argument order wrong in the last renaming, or has Matlab
also switched the argument order in going from weib* to wbl*?

jwe



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