GSL and Octave

GSL and Octave

[Francesco Potorti`]

On the Octave  lists people are discussing (again)  about GSL.  I'd like
to push interested people on this list to seek collaboration with Octave
people.

Unfortunately I do not have the resources to help in this work, and I do
not even know  exactly what is the current  development model of Octave,
but I think that Octave would  be maybe the most natural application for
GSL.

Again, I am  not on this list, so  if you expect me to  drop in possible
discussions, please cc to me.

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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 03:55:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: that GSL thing
In-reply-to: <E15wIrY-0005cp-00@pot.cnuce.cnr.it>
To: pot@gnu.org
Cc: help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu


I was thinking more of a planned trimming away of libcruft routines
which overlap with GSL routines (note: I have no idea whether GSL
routines are NA-lib quality or NR quality, so this may just be a dumb
idea off the bat).

- -r

>From: Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org>
>To: Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com>
>CC: help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
>In-reply-to: <200110231814.LAA13764@eskimo.com> (ripper@eskimo.com)
>Subject: Re: that GSL thing
>References:  <200110231814.LAA13764@eskimo.com>
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>Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:54:08 +0200
>
>As far as I understand, matlab is distributing wrappers for GSL on its
>web site, though they are not official due to GSL being in beta.  I did
>not investigate the matter, but I think that the wrappers must be under
>GPL, so we can take them and adapt them to Octave easily.
>
>
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Re: GSL and Octave

[Brian Gough]

> http://sources.redhat.com/gsl/ref/gsl-ref_toc.html
>
> I was just perusing the GSL page thinking that it consolidated
> a lot of functionality in C that I am used to in octave.  Anyhow,
> I was wondering if there is
>   1) any thought of accessing the GSL from octave
>   2) any opinions by the learned here on the merits of the GSL in general.

If you need to access some GSL routines from Octave the best way is to
use a dynamically loaded .m file, as described in the 'oregonator'
example in the manual.

regards
Brian Gough

GSL and Octave

[Francesco Potorti`]

It turns out  that I was blatantly wrong, because i  misread the text at
< http://www.mathtools.net/C++/Numerical_Computation/ >.   Matlab  is  not
distributing  wrappers  for  GSL.   Sorry  to  everyone  for  the  wrong
information.  It was too nice to be true...