Re: Moving functions from octave-forge to octave

[Marco Atzeri]

On 02/07/2014 09:46, Ronald wrote:
> I read a quote from a 2007 thread of John W. Eaton saying:
> "any function currently in an Octave Forge package that is in
> the list of core Matlab functions is a candidate for moving to
> Octave"
>
> So I was wondering if the actxserver function from the windows package
> shouldn't be moved to the Octave.
>
> And what about others like for example xlsread and xlswrite from the io package?
>
>
> What would be the criteria for moving an Octave Forge function to Octave?
>
> I personally think it would be a good thing to include these.

if they require Java,
no thanks