Re: Add doctest pkg to octave-forge

[Carnë Draug]

On 3 July 2015 at 00:11, Colin Macdonald <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Carnë, others,
>
> Michael Walter and I, with generous help from Oliver Heimlich, have been
> polishing up our Doctest package for running tests on @example blocks in
> m-file documentation.
>
> Could we add this to Octave-Forge?  Its being used by Oliver's Interval and
> my Symbolic pkgs.  Its maintained in git.
>
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>
> If anyone wants to try it,
> [download](https://github.com/catch22/octave-doctest/releases) and then do:
>
>>> pkg install doctest-0.4.0.tar.gz
>>> pkg load doctest
>>> doctest doctest    % test itself
>

I actually think this would be useful in core.  Not as a separate function
but as part of test().  If we start it as a package, then core can't use it
itself.  What do you think?

Carnë