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Re: Octave-forge: you get what you pay for


From: Mike Miller
Subject: Re: Octave-forge: you get what you pay for
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:49:27 -0500 (CDT)

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Matthias Heiler wrote:

....it would be nice if the developers or maintainers could just remove the buggy code from the distribution. Or move it into an "incomplete" or "buggy" directory that is _not_ automatically included in the octave path.

This has the benefit that people take notice: "Oh, there is no LP solver for octave." Then they can either contribute or move to an alternative. That's more efficient for everybody.


I second that. Don't we now have any way of separating what seems to be complete and working from what is new and untested?

Mike



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