Re: Matlab central and octave

[David Bateman]

address@hidden wrote:
> Please inform which programming languiges are allowed in writing software for
> Octave-forge.
> There are some people interesting what about routines written in Python?
> There are lots of tools for sticking of MATLAB & Python code, but can you
> handle the code by yourself if it will be sended to octave-forge? They are
> not fond of doing that by themselves.
> Suppose all needed requirements (Python, numpy, scipy) is installed in a
> user computer, will it be hard for you to add to makefiles the code
> required? And handle situation properly, if something is missed?
> WBR, Dmitrey
>
>   
There are no limits on what the languages on octave-forge can be. I
believe you mean for the packages themselves rather than the
administration tools of octave-forge. However, even for the admin tools
there is a mix of shell, perl and python (with NSI for the windows
builds as well).

Having a package that supplied the glue to communicate between octave
and python would be a good idea, in fact it should work even better than
the equivalent for matlab as octave doesn't split complex values into
real and imaginary parts as matlab does. I don't know if I or anyone
else would be willing to port this glue code from matlab to octave; It
really wouldn't make sense to use the mex api to talk to python from
octave. However, if the issue is getting the code onto octave-forge
itself and figuring out the packaging, I converted a large part of the
old monolithic octave-forge code to the package manager and doing one
more wouldn't be a big issue to me. So sure send the code and I'll put
it up on octave-forge if someone else does do it...

Regards
David

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