Re: Spreadsheet support in core Octave instead of io package?

[John W. Eaton]

On 10/13/2014 06:16 PM, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:45 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     xlsread, xlswrite, and xlsfinfo are all core functions in Matlab.
>     I'd like to make them core functions in Octave as well, as I suspect
>     many users would like to have these functions available by default
>     without having to install a separate package.  Is there any
>     objection to moving them from the io package to core Octave?
>
>     I'd also consider moving the odsread, odswrite, and odsfinfo
>     functions to core Octave at the same time, though I also wonder
>     whether it might make sense to just put the XLS and ODS capabilities
>     in a single function instead of splitting them up in separate
>     functions.
>
>     Comments?
>
> Do you plan to import all the XLS interfaces supported by the io
> package, or strip down the ones you don't want to support?

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by "XLS interfaces"?  Do you 
mean the various ways of handling the files depending on what 
programs/libraries are available on the system?

jwe