Re: Wikibook on octave

[Nicolas Pettiaux]

2007/1/29, David Bateman <address@hidden>:
> Nicolas Pettiaux wrote:

> Hi Nicolas,
>
> I'm not sure I see the interest in creating a separate WikiBook for
> Octave, though of course we value the effort. My reasoning is that as
> incompatibilities between Matlab and Octave are in most cases considered
> as bugs, then the Matlab WikiBook should in an ideal world equally apply
> to Octave. Therefore you are creating additional work for yourself in
> writing a separate contribution and you'll have to continually keep
> chasing the original document and porting changes between version.

I fully agree.

Please read
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Talk:MATLAB_Programming#Octave_.2Aand.2A_matlab_programming
where you'll find my suggestions to first rename the book about
Matlab to "Octave and matlab programming" . There and in and
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User_talk:Npettiaux you'll find some
replies of the heavy contributors of the above book, who are not
fravorable

> I believe a better way would be to request that the original document
> includes a section of Octave specific issues to allow the dwindling
> number of differences between Octave and Matlab to be discussed.

Please help me propose this and argue in this direction, then in
writing this chapter.

> Having
> it integrated in the original document would also make the task of
> evangelizing Octave that much easier as well..

oh YES. and this is why I first wanted the book renamed.

Thanks,

Nicolas

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