Ben Abbott wrote:
On Feb 15, 2008, at 11:31 AM, David Bateman wrote:
Ben Abbott wrote:
On Feb 15, 2008, at 5:02 AM, David Bateman wrote:
Use Octave 3.0.0 and use the matlab syntax everywhere, in most
cases it
should then just work.. If there are any other differences that
prevent
it working then they should be reported as bugs. A function that
does
what you want is
function ret = isoctave ()
persistent isoct
if (isempty (isoct))
isoct = exist('OCTAVE_VERSION') ~= 0;
end
ret = isoct;
end
Regards
David
Might this be added to the core functions?
Ben
How does that help you if we can't convince mathworks to do the
same?
D.
Good point <blushing>
Perhaps an octave version of an existing Matlab function ("ver",
"version", "verLessThan", ?) could do the job?
Under matlab R2007b I see
a = ver('matlab')
a =
Name: 'MATLAB'
Version: '7.5'
Release: '(R2007b)'
Date: '02-Aug-2007'
a = ver('octave')
a =
0x0 struct array with fields:
Name
Version
Release
Date
The octave "ver" function doesn't take an argument. To get the
functionality you want this way you could modify Octave's ver so
that it
assumes the argument is 'octave' if it is missing and then something
like
if (strcmpi (pack, "octave"))
## Do what is already done, plus set ret if needed
else
lst = pkg("list");
ret = [];
for i = 1 : length (lst)
if (strcmpi (pack, lst{i}.name))
ret = struct ("Name", lst{i}.name, "Version", lst{i}.version,
"Release", [], "Date", lst{i}.date);
break;
endif
endfor
if (isempty (ret))
## How do you create an empty structure?
ret = struct ("Name", [], "Version", [], "Release", [], "Date",
[]);
ret(1) = [];
endif
endif
would get the type of behavior you want as long as someone doesn't
create an "octave" toolbox in matlab or a "matlab" package in octave.
D.