Re: java package

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-May-2012, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:26 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
| > On  9-May-2012, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
| >
| > | On 9 May 2012 12:49, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
| > | > I received a request to make the java package from Octave Forge part
| > | > of Octave.  A number of the functions provided by the Octave Forge
| > | > java package are distributed as part of Matlab, not a separate
| > | > toolbox, so it makes sense to me to include them in Octave as well.
| > | > Is there any objection to doing that?
| > |
| > | Oh god... Java...? Has it come to this?
| >
| > For the record, the person who made the request is not a big fan of
| > Java, but apparently has some use for it and finds it inconvenient
| > that it is a separate package.  If these functions were not part of
| > core Matlab, I would simply tell him that we are not including them in
| > Octave.  But since they are part of core Matlab, it seems reasonable
| > to me to include them in Octave as well, since Matlab users moving
| > code to Octave expect them to be available.
| 
| Those users might also expect that something like this is working:
| 
| import java.util.*
| l = ArrayList();
| 
| but it's not.

But some things do work, right?  So I think it is still a useful thing
to add to the core distribution.

jwe