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Re: java package
From: |
Michael Goffioul |
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Re: java package |
Date: |
Wed, 9 May 2012 18:33:53 +0100 |
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.
Michael.
- java package, John W. Eaton, 2012/05/09
- Re: java package, Alexander Hansen, 2012/05/09
- Re: java package, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2012/05/09
- Re: java package, John W. Eaton, 2012/05/09
- Re: java package, Luke M, 2012/05/09
- Re: java package, Carnë Draug, 2012/05/09
- Re: java package, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2012/05/09
- Re: java package, John W. Eaton, 2012/05/09
- Re: java package, Daniel J Sebald, 2012/05/09
- Re: java package, Júlio Hoffimann, 2012/05/09
- Re: java package, Robert T. Short, 2012/05/09