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Re: ImageMagick error during 'make check'


From: Rik
Subject: Re: ImageMagick error during 'make check'
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:27:03 -0700

On 08/05/2013 11:01 AM, Carnë Draug wrote:
> On 5 August 2013 18:53, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 8/5/13
>>
>> Carnė,
>>
>> I'm bringing this on to the Maintainer's list.
>>
>> What should the default behavior be if you call image() with no arguments?
>> Does Matlab automatically invent an image?  Or does it create an image with
>> no data?
>>
>> It seems like the sensible thing would be to either warn that the function
>> was called incorrectly or to create a null image object in the same way
>> that text() will create a valid text object, but with the string set to "".
> This is an easter egg in both Octave and Matlab. Depending on the
> version Matlab shows a different image that has some history behind
> it, in some cases related to people who donates more [1].
>
> What I would do would be to either change the format of default.img,
> or stop treating default.img as an image file.
8/6/13

Carnë,

I just found another instance of this problem in struct2hdl
(http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/b1fd3dc31c42).  As long as
were going to keep this easter egg we should convert it to a filetype that
can be read.  Please go ahead and do that.

Thanks,
Rik



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