Re: Catching up to Matlab

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Sun, 11/14/10, Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Catching up to Matlab
> To: "Sergei Steshenko" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Sunday, November 14, 2010, 11:55 AM
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:01 PM,
> Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- On Tue, 11/2/10, John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
> >> Subject: Re: Catching up to Matlab
> >> To: "Sergei Steshenko" <address@hidden>
> >> Cc: "Judd Storrs" <address@hidden>,
> address@hidden
> >> Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 8:33 AM
> >> On  2-Nov-2010, Sergei Steshenko
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> | I am seriously considering volunteering, but
> _my_ way.
> >> The idea is
> >> | trivially simple:
> >> |
> >> | to modify 'octave' built-in 'help' function in a
> manner
> >> it will in
> >> | addition to displaying 'octave' built-in
> documentation
> >> will display
> >> | the corresponding Matlab documentation by
> invoking WEB
> >> browser with
> >> | URL pointing to Matlab documentation of the
> same
> >> function.
> >>
> >> You are free to do what you like with the help
> function
> >> (subject to
> >> the terms of the GPL) but I don't think a patch
> like you
> >> describe will
> >> be accepted as part of Octave.  I certainly would
> not
> >> apply it, and
> >> would likely remove it if someone else did.
> >>
> >> jwe
> >>
> >
> > I didn't expect any other answer :).
> >
> 
> You would be quite naive if you did. Why on Earth should
> Octave want
> such a thing?
> 

Because Octave _users_ need _good_ documentation and can't care less about
the developers' ideological objections to providing a link.

Regards,
  Sergei.