Re: Spreadsheet support in core Octave instead of io package?

[Michael Godfrey]

All seems good to me.

On 10/13/2014 09:45 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> xlsread, xlswrite, and xlsfinfo are all core functions in Matlab.  I'd 
> like to make them core functions in Octave as well, as I suspect many 
> users would like to have these functions available by default without 
> having to install a separate package.  Is there any objection to 
> moving them from the io package to core Octave?
>
> I'd also consider moving the odsread, odswrite, and odsfinfo functions 
> to core Octave at the same time, though I also wonder whether it might 
> make sense to just put the XLS and ODS capabilities in a single 
> function instead of splitting them up in separate functions.
>
> Comments?