Re: Catching up to Matlab

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden> wrote:
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> --- On Tue, 11/2/10, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> From: John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: Catching up to Matlab
>> To: "Sergei Steshenko" <address@hidden>
>> Cc: "Judd Storrs" <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>> Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 8:33 AM
>> On  2-Nov-2010, Sergei Steshenko
>> wrote:
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>> | I am seriously considering volunteering, but _my_ way.
>> The idea is
>> | trivially simple:
>> |
>> | to modify 'octave' built-in 'help' function in a manner
>> it will in
>> | addition to displaying 'octave' built-in documentation
>> will display
>> | the corresponding Matlab documentation by invoking WEB
>> browser with
>> | URL pointing to Matlab documentation of the same
>> function.
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>> You are free to do what you like with the help function
>> (subject to
>> the terms of the GPL) but I don't think a patch like you
>> describe will
>> be accepted as part of Octave.  I certainly would not
>> apply it, and
>> would likely remove it if someone else did.
>>
>> jwe
>>
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> I didn't expect any other answer :).
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You would be quite naive if you did. Why on Earth should Octave want
such a thing?