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Re: Adding functions to octave base?


From: Jaroslav Hajek
Subject: Re: Adding functions to octave base?
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 09:02:07 +0200

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:49 PM, fork <address@hidden> wrote:
> fork <forkandwait <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> Is there a policy on adding new functions the octave base?  We have a
>> "miscellaneous" in the m/ directory where they could go, or extras/ or
>> nonmatlabcompliant/ etc, etc.
>>
>> I have a couple of infrastructure routines (pushd and popd, ifelse(), and
>> testall(), at the moment) that I use fairly regularly that I can imagine 
>> would
>> be useful to people besides myself.  Plus I would love to not have to worry
>> about where did I put my latest copy of these m-files...
>
> I apologize for getting in a knot about Octave-Forge, but ... can anyone 
> answer
> the above question?  Should I just send in a patch to the savannah site with
> code and see what happens?
>
>


That depends mainly on you. Specific patches are easier to discuss,
but it puts you at risk of writing code that will not be used.
For instance, ifelse() already exists. In any case, I suggest you open
a bug report (marked as enhancement).

regards

-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz



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