Re: 4.4 release plans

[John W. Eaton]

On 12/21/2017 02:44 PM, PhilipNienhuis wrote:
> John W. Eaton wrote

> >     * Make the variable editor feature of the GUI work properly,
> > including for structures and cell arrays.  This may require some changes
> > in the way we communicate between the GUI and the interpreter.
>
> Character arrays (strings as well as 2D arrays) are shown as one character
> in a cell. For strings that is quite clumsy (IMO).

Yeah, it's not supposed to work that way.

> What about "general" objects? (Java, classdef, COM, ...). Currently the
> variable editor crashes on Java objects. I thought of making openvar() (or
> its siblings) to only accept those classes / types that the variable editor
> knows how to show, but I lack the C++ skills to make that happen.

I think we should just skip those for now.  What does Matlab's variable 
editor do with them?

> Would you still like spreadsheet I/O (xlsread, xlswrite) in core Octave?
> I've been working on that and Markus Muetzel wants to help. xmlread and
> xmlwrite would probably come with it.
> It would require some discussion on this ML, I think, as there are some
> complicated choices involved.

Maybe.  It would be nice to have.  What is needed to move it to core now?

> A personal favorite of me is ability to read & write classdef objects
> from/to .mat files.

I think making classdef work better may be more of a 4.6 goal for me.

jwe