From help-request at octave dot org Tue Mar  8 08:26:45 2005
Subject: Sparse-merge
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Richard Hindmarsh <richard dot hindmarsh at which dot net>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:33:13 -0500

On  7-Mar-2005, Richard Hindmarsh <richard dot hindmarsh at which dot net> wrote:

| According to a recent e-mail from John Eaton, sparse was going to be 
| merged into the main part of Octave soon, but
| 
| (Q1) Am I right in concluding that this didn't occur in time for 2.1.67?

The sparse code has been merged on the main trunk of the CVS archive.
Since 2.1.63, the 2.1.x snapshots have been made from a separate
branch in the CVS archive.  There hasn't been a snapshot from the main
trunk since the split, but you are welcome to try building from CVS.
When we do make another snapshot from the main trunk, it will have a
version number like 2.9.0 and will likely be marked as "untsable" for
a while.

| (Q2) When it does occur, will I be able to do e.g.
| 
| ASM = sparse(3,3);
| ASM(1,1) = 1;
| 
| without turning ASM into a full matrix?

Yes.

jwe



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