TODO tidbits

[Brian Gough]

I have cleaned up the TODO file. The print and check_version()
functions seems reasonable if they are used by GTK. I will put them in
the version.c file now at the top-level (was dummy.c in your patch).

Dave Morrison writes:
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > I was perusing the gsl TODO list and came across a couple of things.  Is
 > the first item, "Make sure gsl_config.h is used consistently.", still
 > relevant?  There's a note in the ChangeLog that says gsl_config.h has
 > been removed in favor of using the config.h generated by autoconf. 
 > Nothing in the source refers to gsl_config.h.  Very consistently :-). 
 > Perhaps this item can be checked off?
 > 
 > I agree with the second item about having a way to check (or print) the
 > version number of the current gsl installation.  Any thoughts on how
 > folks would like to see this done?  In my own working copy of gsl I put
 > together something along the lines of what I've seen done in other
 > libraries (goose, gtk, ...) with `gsl_print_version()' and
 > `gsl_check_version(int major, int minor, int micro)'.  Not exactly
 > rocket science, but it works well enough.  The question I have is where
 > sould such routines reside?  Should there be a libgslversion.so that
 > contains just these couple of routines?  
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > Dave
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