Re: 'octave' and 'matio'

[David Bateman]

On 08/03/2011 09:43 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> Anyways, my question was, we can already read and write mat files, are
> we doing it incorrectly or insufficiently enough to warrant throwing
> out out code or merging it with theirs? What's to be gained by this
> development?
> 


Matio can read/write matlab V7.3 files, which are a matlab wrapper
around HDF5. Octave currently can't do that. So this is one major reason
to convert to use matio.

There's also a residual bug in Octave for zipped matfile's that I can't
seem to fix, see

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32167

that would probably be fixed by using matio.

However, matio can't treat matlab objects, such as anonymous functions
and so if we convert to matio we'd have to reimplement objects.

D.