Re: Release 4.4.0 and statistics package

[Rik]

On 12/28/2017 05:29 AM, Olaf Till wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 03:46:41PM -0800, Rik wrote:
>>  As part of that release, a lot of the statistics functions
>> are set to be removed from core Octave and transitioned to the statistics
>> package.  How can this be coordinated?
> I'd suggest to add a src/Makefile.in with rules that generate these
> functions m-files only if the corresponding functions are lacking in
> the applicable installed Octave.
>
> If cross-compilation is detected by src/configure, the approach should
> be different, probably generating all these files without further
> checking (assuming cross-compilation is only done with new Octave
> versions).
>
> I could probably do that for Arno.

That sounds like an elegant solution.  I was just going to let people get
shadowed function warnings, but your way is better.

--Rik