Re: java package

[Michael Goffioul]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:26 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On  9-May-2012, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>
> | On 9 May 2012 12:49, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> | > I received a request to make the java package from Octave Forge part
> | > of Octave.  A number of the functions provided by the Octave Forge
> | > java package are distributed as part of Matlab, not a separate
> | > toolbox, so it makes sense to me to include them in Octave as well.
> | > Is there any objection to doing that?
> |
> | Oh god... Java...? Has it come to this?
>
> For the record, the person who made the request is not a big fan of
> Java, but apparently has some use for it and finds it inconvenient
> that it is a separate package.  If these functions were not part of
> core Matlab, I would simply tell him that we are not including them in
> Octave.  But since they are part of core Matlab, it seems reasonable
> to me to include them in Octave as well, since Matlab users moving
> code to Octave expect them to be available.

Those users might also expect that something like this is working:

import java.util.*
l = ArrayList();

but it's not.

Michael.