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Re: 'octave' and 'matio'


From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Subject: Re: 'octave' and 'matio'
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 10:52:19 -0500

Moving this discussion to the maintainers' list...

On 3 August 2011 07:57, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 08/03/2011 09:43 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>> Anyways, my question was, we can already read and write mat files, are
>> we doing it incorrectly or insufficiently enough to warrant throwing
>> out out code or merging it with theirs? What's to be gained by this
>> development?
>>
>
>
> Matio can read/write matlab V7.3 files, which are a matlab wrapper
> around HDF5. Octave currently can't do that. So this is one major reason
> to convert to use matio.
>
> There's also a residual bug in Octave for zipped matfile's that I can't
> seem to fix, see
>
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32167
>
> that would probably be fixed by using matio.
>
> However, matio can't treat matlab objects, such as anonymous functions
> and so if we convert to matio we'd have to reimplement objects.

Well, this certainly sounds interesting. I'm all for pooling efforts.
Should we toss this on the wishlist pile for 3.6 release goals?

- Jordi G. H.


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