Spreadsheet I/O to core [WAS: Release Ideas]

[Philip Nienhuis]

John W. Eaton wrote
> On 01/27/2015 06:26 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
>
> > A while ago you mentioned you'd liked to have xlsread & xlswrite in core
> > Octave.
>
> Yes, that would be a good addition.  Thanks.
>
>  > I'm almost ready to amend the io package to make that happen, but I
> > could use some guidance; I've made some remarks and asked some questions in
> > the thread in question
> > (http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Spreadsheet-support-in-core-Octave-instead-of-io-package-tt4666947.html#a4666962).
>
> OK, I'll follow up there.

Just a short follow-up here:

Initially I counted on release 4.2 to include/"receive" the spreadsheet 
I/O functions.

Now that default & gui-release have been merged (back into 3.9.0+) I'm 
afraid I simply lack time to prepare this for the coming 4.0 release, 
sorry.
Hopefully this doesn't bring along too much inconvenience; luckily the 
io package still installs fine with the new "default" branch.

BTW how about bumping the current 3.9.0+ version to 3.9.1+ to 
distinguish it from the "former" 3.9.0+/gui-release?

Philip