Re: bioinfo package - maintenance of ...

[Julien Bect]

Le 19/12/2017 à 06:10, Oliver Heimlich a écrit :
> (On a side note: interval is not Matlab compatible

My mistake.  I thought it was.  But symbolic is, isn't it ?


> The reason why Octave coding style is requested for packages is 
> twofold: (a) it shall allow to easily move a function from a package 
> into Octave core or into another package, (b) it shall be easier to 
> contribute to community maintained packages for all of us, which is 
> easier when all packages follow a corporate style.
> Reason (a) is probably irrelevant for several packages. If only small functions 
> are of interest, the effort would be small to convert them into Octave style.
>
> Reason (b) is really important because I'd like to see more contributions to 
> packages happening and a common style helps with that in the long run. It 
> simplifies to accept contributions if you don't have to reformat the patches.

Sure, I would also like to see more contributions happening ;-)

And you guys are really going to discourage someone who is willing to 
contribute to an *unmaintained* package just because he wants to use % 
instead of # and "end" instead of "endif", "endfor", etc. ?