Remove legacy MATLAB toolbox

ischoegl commented 4 months ago

Changes proposed in this pull request

This PR seeks to map out the removal of the legacy MATLAB toolbox

[x] Remove interfaces/matlab
[x] Remove documentation of legacy toolbox
[x] Remove tests and samples
[x] Remove MATLAB installation from build system
[x] Remove references to MATLAB toolbox from new sphinx web theme

Items to be deferred:

Remove clib functions that were only used by legacy MATLAB toolbox
Bump development version number as this is a significant change

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Closes Cantera/enhancements#196

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ischoegl commented 3 months ago

This is ready for a review.

ischoegl commented 3 months ago

@speth … thanks for the review. The main remaining question is about the fate of the macOS installer. Based on my understanding it’s no longer needed, and I added one more admonition to clarify.

PS: found a typo and had to force-push, but it should all be taken care of now

Cantera / cantera

Remove legacy MATLAB toolbox #1670