Re: Fwd: [Pkg-octave-devel] Popcon stats for the DOG packages

[Philip Nienhuis]

Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Philip Nienhuis<address@hidden>  writes:
>
> > On my Linux boxes (Mandriva), Octave can read/write .xls and .ods w/o any
> > problems using io and java pkgs.
> > For a little while I tried Ubuntu - worked OK there as well.
>
> I can't tell for these distributions. But on Debian, xlsread currently
> fails, even with the java package installed (which itself installs a
> JRE, of course). I am going to investigate it, and report any problem if
> it turns out that it is not Debian specific.

There's this function file in io pkg (since v. 1.0.15) that may be of help:

chk_spreadsheet_support.m

(see its help)

I wrote it especially to automate a lot of straightforward 
troubleshooting and javaclasspath setup.

Furthermore, since io-1.0.17 I have included some rough test scripts 
(because spreadsheet I/O testing isn't easily included in function test 
sections).
These test scripts serve more fine-grained troubleshooting (actually 
rather checking for proper operation & bug hunting) once the actual I/O 
itself is working.

Please report io pkg problems to the octave-forge mailing list plus -if 
you want- directly to me (my SF address, which is in the function files).

Thanks,

Philip