Re: bio-formats package for octave released

[Carnë Draug]

On 16 September 2015 at 13:52, Carnë Draug wrote:
> On 15 September 2015 at 18:31, Carnë Draug wrote:
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> the bio-formats project [1] has released for the first time an Octave
>> interface [2] to their java library.
>> <snip>
>> It also requires that the bioformats library be available on the
>> system [3] and in the static javaclasspath (the file javaclasspath.txt
>> on the home directory must have a line with the path for bioformats.jar).
>
> Easier is to just do:
>
> javaaddpath ('/full/path/to/bioformats.jar')
>
> Optionally put that in your .octaverc

No.  This does not work.  As I mentioned, it requires that the bioformats
library be available in the static javaclasspath.  Your suggestion will add
it to the dynamic classpath and will not work.  The octave java interface
behaves differently if the classes are in one or the other.

> It can even be put in the bioformats' PKG_ADD command (+ a matching
> javarmpath line in PKG_DEL), if it has those files. But OK that's for
> "hackers"

It already does that [4].  It checks if Octave has java support and if the
library is available in static classpath.

Carnë

[4] 
https://github.com/openmicroscopy/bioformats/blob/develop/components/formats-gpl/octave/PKG_ADD