Re: Octave projects

[David Bateman]

Ivana Varekova wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm interesting in algebraic systems, math (especially algebra) and
> programming (I'm informatic) and I'd like to start to contribute to
> octave package (if it is possible).
> I want to ask you if there is any up to date list of "free" octava
> projects or feature requests from which I can choose some project, which
> I can solve. I found two documents http://www.octave.org/projects.html
>  
This one is very out of date.. An updated version is in the CVS at

http://www.octave.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/octave/PROJECTS?rev=HEAD&view=auto

Before starting any project in this list, I'd suggest contacting 
address@hidden with your  intentions, as there has generally 
already been some thinking, and even example code, or a good reason not 
to proceed for all of them...

> and http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?MostWanted  - but I'm not sure
> whether these pages are not out of date.
>  
Again be careful with this list, some of them have been implemented (eg 
-e flag or example or typed compiler), and many don't make any sense as 
explained in the wiki itself.. I'd be more inclined to start from the 
PROJECT file above.

> My math specialization is algebra so I'm especially interested in
> algebraic projects - linear algebra, linear programming, matrices, graph
> algorithms, ... or mathematical analysis projects.
Want to implement the sparse graph theory stuff. That is etreeplot, 
treeplot, gplot and treelayout. I couldn't be bothered with these 
functions when implementing the sparse stuff, so if someone else doesn't 
implement them, they won't be implemented :-)

Cheers
David

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