[Pkg-octave-devel] Octave 3.0 or 3.2 in wheezy

[Thomas Weber]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 02:28:56PM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 18 January 2013 14:05, Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> wrote:
> > [1] I am particularly unhappy about the way this new feature is
> > introduced, but at the end, it is not my decision.
> 
> Broadcasting seems to have been quite a polarising decision. Some
> people really love it, some really hate it. Most people remain unaware
> of it, because Matlab doesn't have it. It may be my last attempt to
> introduce new Octave syntax, though.

I don't mind the feature[1]. I do mind the way it was introduced,
though. So, how would I like to have this handled?
In 3.6, introduce it, with a default to "off". 
In 3.8, change the default to "on". 
In 3.10, remove the old code and keep only broadcasting[2].

[1] I don't use Octave currently, so the feature is certainly not
hindering me :)
[2] Yeah, some people are going to hate me for this, but the alternative
will be that every simple script that might want to use broadcasting has
to check for its availability, forever.

	Thomas