[Bug-gsl] gsl

[rainbowsally]

It's not just you, but I'm getting very frustrated by the crappy 
software being created lately.

For starters, the gzipped ps docs aren't searchable.  Run ps2pdf and 
they suddenly ARE.  And it's a wonderful thing because now you can find 
the broken example code.

The docs folder is loaded with scientific information such as ??? 
colors?  Fonts?

How I wish the damned spline demo worked.  Not the stand-alone, which is 
worthless in terms of analyzing what it does, but the one in the docs 
that uses a gsl_interp object that doesn't exist in the latest version.

Don't get me wrong, I'm very respectful of the time and effort that goes 
into this software but I don't think you should be BREAKING older code 
and thinking it's an improvement.

My two cents.

Sorry, but bad news can't be dressed up very much, eh?

So here it is again, simply.  Your docs suck and the library is 
essentially broken.  Where's the regression stuff?  The splines.  The 
bezier functions.  Do you think the only application for this stuff is 
from text files and command lines?

WHY do you guys (not just you but open source in general) DO THIS!?  And 
leave it in tatters as though someone else wants to fix it.

[Add the movement toward opaque binaries and the forcast for open source 
is getting pretty dismal.]