[Pkg-octave-devel] Bugs in octave2.1

[Thomas Weber]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:28:49PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2009-01-02 19:59]:
> 
> > Yes. #348480 is fixed in the development branch (3.1), but won't make it
> > into the 3.0 branch (change of algorithm).
> 
> Would it be too complicated to backport the change into the octave3.0
> package?

Good question. I just tested polyfit from the Mercurial head and it
seems to work. Should we just use it instead of the default polyfit? It
comes with 9 tests and all pass.

> > Hmm, that makes me wonder whether we shouldn't close it and point people to
> > the 3.1 branch.
> 
> Since 3.1 is considered the development branch and 3.0 is the stable branch,
> I am afraid that we cannot simply recommend 3.1 to our users.

Well, I hope 3.2 comes soon :)

	Thomas