From bug-request at octave dot org Thu Nov 24 07:26:24 2005
Subject: Re: trigonometric and hyperbolic functions
From: William Poetra Yoga H <williampoetra at yahoo dot com>
To: bug at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 05:25:15 -0800 (PST)

--- "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu> wrote:

> 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.?
> 

But Octave doesn't depend on those... If we make Octave use GSL functions (as
in being dependant on GSL for core functions), we could do this (or better, the
alternative I say below).

> | 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.
> 

Well, what about only making it a requirement for those who build from source,
and provide a statically linked binary for those who don't want to compile from
sources?

Using GSL can slim Octave down, for example by replacing functions in
libcruft/blas (well, not everyone uses ATLAS...).


William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno


		
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