Re: Are package folder supported?

[T .]

I don't have access to Octave at the moment (traveling), but from what
I can see, this does not seem the equivalent of Matlab package
folders.

There, folders are setup like: +geom2d/+private/, and you can call the
function then with: foo = geom2d.private.assertEqual( bar ).

I'm not sure how many people actually use these package folders in
Matlab, but for me they serve as namespaces, and prevent accidentally
overwriting existing Matlab/Octave functions. Of course, if you simply
add all subfolders of +geom2d to the path, the function can still be
called with: foo = assertEqual( bar ). When used as package folders,
only +geom2d is added to the path.

As I'm in the end of my PhD thesis, I have only limited possibilities
to contribute. But if someone can point me to the relevant files in
the main Octave repository, I might give it a go at some point.

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 27 September 2012 18:20, deraltefritz <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Is there a technical reason not to support it?
>>
>> It requires work to be done and nobody has done it.
>>
>> - Jordi G. H.
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>
> I may have missed something here. If you are asking with packages with
> folders, packages can have subfolders check geometry[1], mechanics[2],
> instrument-control[3], ocs[4], and many more... even non
> OctaveForge[5]
>
> [1] 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/code/11153/tree/trunk/octave-forge/main/geometry/
> [2] 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/code/11153/tree/trunk/octave-forge/main/mechanics/
> [3] 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/code/11153/tree/trunk/octave-forge/main/instrument-control/
> [4] 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/code/11153/tree/trunk/octave-forge/extra/ocs/
> [5] https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/ailab/people/carbajal/DRD/drd.html
>
>
>
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> University of Zürich
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