[OctDev] octave-forge release

[Paul K. <pki...@us...>]

New octave-forge release: 2004-09-09

Extends support to Octave 2.1.58

* Base
   - getfield/setfield now have a compatible interface; for the
     old behaviour, use setfields/getfields.
   - Fill full 53-bit mantissa with the random number generators; new
     sequences will be different from old sequences with the same seed.
   - Removed restrictions on datenum/datevec and added calendar/eomday
   - Added nthroot to return real root if available
   - Added isa to test for class membership
   - clf resets to line graphs
   - Quiver plot is faster and no longer requires clf
   - Added audio playback on OS X

* Image processing
   - Initial support for int* types.
   - Added dilate erode bweuler bwmorph houghtf stretchlim
     makelut applylut uintlut padarray roicolor poly2mask
     qtdecomp qtgetblk qtsetblk bestblk blkproc nlfilter
     cmunique cmpermute col2im im2col graycomatrix conndef isrgb

* Optimization
   - Replacement fzero using Brent's root finder

* Communications:
   - Support for concatenation operator [] on galois type
   - Reduce restrictions on bchpoly syndtable

* Signal processing:
   - Added flattopwin
   - fir1/fir2 have more flexible argument handling

* Sparse:
   - Load/save support
   - Support for concatenation operator []
   - Added pcr for preconditioned conjugate gradient

* Statistics:
   - Added histfit pareto tabulate anderson_darling_cdf 
anderson_darling_test