Re: very small packages - merge into general/miscelleneous or move into core

[Olaf Till]

On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 04:28:48PM +0100, c. wrote:
> 
> On 2 Feb 2014, at 16:11, Olaf Till <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > For reasons of speed, they write and read no header, so they don't
> > care for differences in endianness and (potential) differences in
> > float format between different machines. Using them to transfer data
> > between different machines will not necessarily work. For this, there
> > are different functions in "parallel".
> 
> OK, so I'll just specify this in the docs before the release.

As I said, I will care for that. Trust me.

> >> After the merge, I'd like to prepare a release of the package if 
> >> you're OK with it.
> > 
> > Actually I would prefer to do that myself. There will be more to think
> > about for this than merely parcellfun and pararrayfun. I understand
> > you want a new release early (though I don't understand what is the
> > cause of the urgency, doesn't "general" compile for you currently?).
> 
> There's no real hurry, the reason I'd like to do this is that 
> I teach a course using Octave starting in March and I have to ask 
> the sysadmin to install al the stuff I need before then.
> If parcellfun is moved to 'parallel' I'd rather ask him to install 
> 'parallel' rather than 'general', but if it's not ready for this 
> edition of the course it's not a big deal.

Ok, understood. Think I'll be fast enough.

Olaf

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