Re: Making specfun pkg unmaintained

[Carnë Draug]

On 25 May 2016 at 18:11, Colin Macdonald <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Carnë et al,
>
> I've prepared a release for Symbolic.  This release has some functions
> from the specfun pkg [1] but I have not finished moving them all
> over---mainly because the remaining functions are of poor quality.
>
> Carnë said:
>
>> We should make a new release of the specfun package before the next
>> release of the symbolic package (or maybe just mark it as
>> unmaintained).
>
> I suppose unmaintained feels right to me.
>
> Here is a summary:
>
>   * Symbolic 2.4.0 will shadow/conflict with the current specfun-1.1.0:
>     dirac, heaviside, laguerreL, and lambertw: numerical functions
>     we've already moved over and dropped from specfun tip.
>
>   * With Octave 4.0.1, specfun-1.1.0 shadows:
>     ellipj, ellipke, erfcinv, expint.
>
>   * With Octave tip, as above but also:
>     psi.
>
>   * The Specfun->Symbolic transition discussion is at [1].
>
> cheers,
> Colin
>
> [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?8644
>

Done.

    http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/project-web/rev/4a46d8953011