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From: | Richard Crozier |
Subject: | Re: svmtrain/svmclassify |
Date: | Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:36:30 +0000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 |
On 09/12/2012 23:41, Carnë Draug wrote:
On 9 December 2012 23:14, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:On 12/09/2012 03:59 PM, Carnė Draug wrote:On 9 December 2012 20:49, Juan Pablo Carbajal<address@hidden> wrote:I totally disagree with that policy. We have to provide a good way to search for functions, not to stick t the braindead way of classifying functions in matlab.On 9 December 2012 21:17, Daniel J Sebald<address@hidden> wrote:I agree that organizing packages on the basis of Matlab's organization isn't necessary.Indirectly, this is the same policy/organization that decides if a function should go into an Octave Forge package or into Octave core.I'm not understanding. What is the same policy? How so indirectly?
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Now, Octave can't become a collection of all Octave code that is out there, but if we decide to say "screw matlab, their organization doesn't make sense. This function should go into some more appropriate package" then we can also start saying "screw matlab, their organization doesn't make sense. This function is to broad and should should go into core, not into a package". And of course, broad, general use, more useful, etc can be relative. But so can be the area or field of a specific function. Carnë
Are there reasons not to have packages depend upon one another, or technical reasons this would be very difficult to implement (embarrassingly I don't know if this is already done)?
A specialised bioinformatics package that depends on a more general machine learning package makes sense to me, but I'm sure others have thought this through already and found it difficult to achieve in practice?
This would allow Octave-Forge to have Matlab's organisation, and a sensible organisation too. Packages that make up equivalents of ML's toolboxes could be made up almost entirely of dependency lists, plus maybe a few extra functions.
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