Re: Rename xzip.cc?

[Carnë Draug]

On 18 August 2016 at 14:56, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
> 8/18/16
>
> Carnë,
>
> Like m-files, Octave is expecting that the name of a .oct file corresponds
> to one of the DEFUN blocks.  This is an issue with xzip.cc because there is
> no function of that name, but __list_functions__ and therefore "help
> --list" show an xzip function.
>
> The simple solution would be to rename the file xzip.cc to either gzip.cc
> or bzip2.cc since those are DEFUN blocks within the file.  There is
> precedent for this.  The file chol.cc has chol, but also
>
> cholinv
> chol2inv
> cholupdate
> cholinsert
> choldelete
> cholshift
>
> When urlwrite and urlread were in dldfcns they also were in one file which
> went under one of the function names.
>

Done http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/966f75d09cb0

I guess the other alternative is to make them builtin functions but I don't
think they'd be useful there.