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Re: private directories
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: private directories |
Date: |
Sat, 3 Mar 2012 13:03:25 -0500 |
On 3-Mar-2012, Muhali wrote:
| > I've never liked that data files could also be found by searching a
| > list of directories and I find the idea of also searching private
| > directories quite strange.
|
| I agree. But the big appeal of octave is, for the user at least, its matlab
| compatibility, so that code that has been developed elsewhere can be run
| from octave.
|
| For me this case occurs constantly, for example with M-MAP
| (http://www.eos.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html), and of course I would like to be
| able to run the code as smoothly as possible. Glitches like the one
| described here hinder that and are, from the user perspective, an annoyance.
|
| Compatibility should remain high priority for octave, even if it means
| sacrificing some coding stnadards.
I see you filed a feature request for this, which is fine. Maybe
someone will volunteer to fix the problem for you. If you want it
faster, consider paying someone to do the work.
jwe