New octave and octave-forge releases in preparation

[Gerrit P. Haase]

James R. Phillips wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm preparing an new release of octave which will have fftw3 as a build
> dependency.  I also am going to link it with --enable-auto-image-base option.
> 
> Along with octave will go a new octave-forge release, which will inherit the
> new octave linker option.  However, I have also discovered (by accident) that
> octave-forge will build and install its gsl functions if gsl is installed at
> the time octave-forge is built.  And the gsl maintainer has in fact expressed
> some interest in having gsl supported in octave-forge.
> 
> Now is the time to speak up.  Should octave-forge support gsl?  If so, it will
> become an installation dependency, as well as a build dependency.  Opinions,
> please.

You are the maintainer.  If you say having gsl support is useful, go
ahead.


Gerrit
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