Re: graphics-branch in CVS

[Shai Ayal]

On 12/8/06, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On  8-Dec-2006, Shai Ayal wrote:
>
> | Octplot does have a very large portion of the plotting functions
> | converted to use handle graphics, so you could use them
>
> It would be good if we did not duplicate effort here.  It seems that
> we should be able to come up with some common versions.  To start
> with, anything that can be defined in terms of commands like get, set,
> line, axis, etc. could be shared.  Where should the primary version of
> these functions live, in the Octave CVS archive or the OctPlot SVN
> archive?  Also, we would need to merge any functions that are already
> in both projects so that we make sure to not lose features.  I would
> also ask that they mostly conform to Octave coding convections.

I have no problem with putting these in the octplot svn -- as I said I
am very promiscuous in granting write access to svn. However, since
these are going to be an integral part of octave, it seems they should
be in octave cvs -- everyone who downloads octplot will also download
octave, however the converse is not true (at least yet ...). My only
worry is that octaves higher standards for code quality will clash
with my tendency for quick releases.

As for coding conventions -- I do not know what they are for m-files,
can you please refer me to something here? The functions are quite
complete feature-wise, and I tried to conform to the RFC by Bill.
Probably argument checking is not perfect, but all the high level
functions -- (e.g. plot, contour etc ...) should be totally portable,
and in fact they should also run in matlab (although I cannot check
since I don't have matlab).

Shai