Re: test scripts

[James R. Van Zandt]

jwe writes: 
>I've also been having a discussion with Etienne Grossmann
>about how to speed up acceptance of patches.
>
>...Part of the problem is that I am busy.  Part of the problem is
>that the patches often have problems.  I hope that we can arrive at
>some way to make things go faster.
>
>I'm concerned that applying any patch no matter how it is written,
>will make the sources less coherent, harder to read, and ultimately,
>harder to maintain.  It would help me if people would follow the
>coding conventions of the existing Octave sources when submitting
>patches, but I'd like to know whether people think it is an
>unreasonable request.

Which reminds me - what are the prospects for getting HDF and MATLAB 5
format file I/O into Octave?  (I did try to follow the existing coding
conventions. :-)

            - Jim Van Zandt