Re: svmtrain/svmclassify

[Richard Crozier]

On 09/12/2012 23:41, Carnë Draug wrote:
> On 9 December 2012 23:14, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 12/09/2012 03:59 PM, Carnė Draug wrote:
> > > On 9 December 2012 20:49, Juan Pablo Carbajal<address@hidden>
> > > wrote:
> > > > I totally disagree with that policy. We have to provide a good way to
> > > > search for functions, not to stick t the braindead way of classifying
> > > > functions in matlab.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 9 December 2012 21:17, Daniel J Sebald<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > > > I agree that organizing packages on the basis of Matlab's organization
> > > > isn't
> > > > necessary.
> > >
> > >
> > > Indirectly, this is the same policy/organization that decides if a
> > > function should go into an Octave Forge package or into Octave core.
> >
> > I'm not understanding.  What is the same policy?  How so indirectly?
<snip>
> Now, Octave can't become a collection of all Octave code that is out
> there, but if we decide to say "screw matlab, their organization
> doesn't make sense. This function should go into some more appropriate
> package" then we can also start saying "screw matlab, their
> organization doesn't make sense. This function is to broad and should
> should go into core, not into a package".
>
> And of course, broad, general use, more useful, etc can be relative.
> But so can be the area or field of a specific function.
>
> Carnë

Are there reasons not to have packages depend upon one another, or 
technical reasons this would be very difficult to implement 
(embarrassingly I don't know if this is already done)?

A specialised bioinformatics package that depends on a more general 
machine learning package makes sense to me, but I'm sure others have 
thought this through already and found it difficult to achieve in practice?

This would allow Octave-Forge to have Matlab's organisation, and a 
sensible organisation too. Packages that make up equivalents of ML's 
toolboxes could be made up almost entirely of dependency lists, plus 
maybe a few extra functions.

Richard







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