On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 03:28:38PM +0000, Carnë Draug wrote:
> On 1 November 2011 14:05, Olaf Till <olaf.t...@uni-jena.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 02:54:17PM +0100, Olaf Till wrote:
> >> On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 12:40:09PM +0000, Carnė Draug wrote:
> >> > On 1 November 2011 10:51, Olaf Till <olaf.t...@uni-jena.de> wrote:
> >> > > I would like to remove optimset_compat of package optim, since Octave
> >> > > since before version 3.4 has optimset. Also, optimset_compat is not
> >> > > used within the optim package, except that it is tested by a
> >> > > testscript.
> >> > >
> >> > > BTW, it would be nice if someone could decide on whether
> >> > > fminunc_compat is still needed. fminunc is now also in
> >> > > Octave. fminunc_compat does not itself do optimization, but calls
> >> > > other functions, which could be called directly. But I don't know if
> >> > > using fminunc_compat could still be desirable in some cases.
> >> >
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I don't know anything about the function, but does it do anything that
> >> > octave's fminunc doesn't?
> >> >
> >> > Carnė
> >>
> >> I can't easily say. It is obviously there to provide an fminunc-like
> >> interface to 'minimize', which itself seems to be a wrapper for
> >> several backends. I think fminunc reaches always the same backend, but
> >> it would take me much time to be sure with the used system of options.
> >>
> >> Olaf
> >
> > And it just occured to me that users of fminunc_compat probably have a
> > use for optimset_compat, too, since fminunc_compat does not register
> > its options for Octaves optimset ... Olaf
>
> Why not have those functions issue a warning right after the call?
> Something like:
> warning ("'fminunc_compat' has been deprecated in favor of 'fminunc'
> which is now part of octave core. This function will be removed from
> future versions of the 'optim' package");
>
> Carnë
Sounds reasonable to me. I think I'll do that for fminunc_compat and
optimset_compat.
Thanks, Olaf
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