Re: GP_ISVAR, GP_FIT_ERRVARS

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Petr Mikulik wrote:

> What about:
> 
> - GP_ISVAR: not have flag "EXPERIMENTAL"

That one can probably go in right away.

> - GP_FIT_ERRVARS: not have flag "EXPERIMENTAL", and define this feature by
> default?

I'm not really convinced about this.  We had no explicit surprise
comment about it (probably because it was disabled by default, and a 
significant fraction of our "beta-testers" actually use pre-built 
binaries, so they never ran across that option in ./configure in the
first place...), but this feature does run a significant risk of
breaking people's scripts by introducing new variables with names they
may have been using for different purposes before.

I.e., turning this on by default could well create a new FAQ entry all by
itself.

OTOH, if any time is right for introducing such a change, the release
of 4.0 is.  Hmmm....

What the heck, let's do it.  I'm patching ./configure and relevant files
right away.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.