Octave 4.0 freeze? (was: Re: important for OF maintainer - ismatrix backwards incompatible change in octave 4.0)

[Olaf Till]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:52:15PM +0000, Carnë Draug wrote:
> Hi
> 
> the ismatrix function in Octave will change for the new version 4.0.
> Currently, this function returns true if it is a numeric, logical, or
> character array with any number of dimensions.  The new version will
> return true if the object has two dimensions even if it is a cell or
> struct array.
> 
>     WARNING: ismatrix() will return true for a struct and false for
>             ND numeric arrays.
> 
> I quickly grepped Octave Forge for ismatrix and it is used in most of the
> packages.  Would be nice if this is fixed in the packages

Done for optim and parallel,

> and there were
> new released of them before Octave 4.0.

but no new releases yet. Is now already a good time to finally check
packages for Octave 4.0 compatibility? Or should we take the time when
Octaves test tarballs are out?

Olaf

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