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Re: Add missing function db2pow


From: NVS Abhilash
Subject: Re: Add missing function db2pow
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 21:54:36 -0800 (PST)

Mike Miller-4 wrote
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 05:27:58 -0800, NVS Abhilash wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I am a newbie to octave programming and development, I am really
>> interested
>> in adding a missing function to octave, and while surfing the mailing
>> list,
>> I found this link 
>> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/missing-functions-db2pow-and-pow2db-td4679753.html
>> <http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/missing-functions-db2pow-and-pow2db-td4679753.html>
>>   
>> 
>> So, I saw that this is a very simple function to start with. So I want to
>> ask, is it ok to go for it.
>> 
>> If yes can anyone tell me where to add that .m file, I assume
>> octave/scripts/signal. But anyone's suggestion and thoughts would be
>> helpful.
> 
> This function will not be part of Octave, it would make more sense to
> add to the signal package.
> 
> See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39309#comment4 for some current
> thoughts about domain-specific functions in core Octave.
> 
> If you are set on contributing a missing function to core Octave vs a
> Forge package, take a look at the function
> scripts/help/__unimplemented__.m, skip to the end of the file, where
> there is a curated list of names of Matlab functions that Octave does
> not yet have.
> 
> Please do ask about specific functions, as some people may already have
> ideas, partial work, or the function may exist in other forms elsewhere
> already.
> 
> -- 
> mike


Thank you Mike,

I went through the file, I found many functions, some felt out of scope for
me now, but I got interested in doing the "userpath" function.

So I want to know weather it is ok to do so, or someone else is already
working on it.

Thanks
NVS 



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