From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Oct  9 19:50:32 2000
Subject: Re: gammainc & GSL
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at kienzle dot powernet dot co dot uk>
To: Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen at pcu dot helsinki dot fi>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:27:15 +0100

If you design the interface so that you can access the functions from
.oct files, then it doesn't matter too much if it goes into the base
distribution.  I'll be happy to mention it in my matlab compatibility
database.  That way, people who don't need the extra 2 Mb of code don't
have to install it.  The only thing this needs is a patch so that user
functions can override builtins.

Paul Kienzle
pkienzle at kienzle dot powernet dot co dot uk

On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 02:36:26AM +0300, Teemu Ikonen wrote:
...
>
> I tried to dug a real implementation from the net and found a nice looking
> one from GNU scientific library [1]. Adding GSL routines to Octave
> isn't trivial because of GSL's error handling and other supporting
> functions which would have to be changed to comply with Octave, but GSL
> contains a lot of useful code (in C!), especially in the special functions
> section, so we could have quite a lot more functionality as a result.
> 
> Now if I start to integrate GSL into libcruft, is there any chance that
> the modifications could be included in the Octave distribution?
> 
> Teemu
> 
> [1] http://sources.redhat.com/gsl/ 
> 
>