Re: WaveLab under Octave?

[Søren Hauberg]

Hi,
  Answers below. In the future, please make sure to CC the mailing list
such that other people can learn from your experiences.

søn, 10 08 2008 kl. 08:16 -0700, skrev PattiMichelle:
> Thanks for the reply, Søren.  WaveLab itself is alive and well, but he
> WaveLabOnOctave page is indeed dated and does not cover windows.  I
> was just thinking that WaveLab is almost a no-braner (i.e., free,
> high quality, and Matlab compatable) way to add wavelets to Octave.
> Matlab has written its own wavelet tool box and which couldn't be
> easily added to Octave.  

I think it would better to work with the WaveLab people so they test
their software with Octave, and have them provide Octave installation
instructions. Octave cannot include every thinkable piece of software
available online.

> I've tried decompressing wavelab and running the script, but encounter
> errors that I don't understand

What are these errors? Nobody can help you unless you give us very
detailed information.

> wavelets over the last decade have become at least as important as
> Fourier spectral analysis.

Well that's your opinion, and personally I disagree. I have seen very
few applications of wavelets outside research, but I don't follow the
topic closely. Anyway, that's a bit off-topic...

> I guess if I could get it running (with online help?) I could
> contribute to a wiki?

If you get WaveLab installed on Windows, I'm sure other people would
appreciate you documenting it. I would however still recommend that
Octave installation documentation should be distributed directly with
WaveLab.

> I noticed that Scilab 5 is distributed with a 64-bit version for
> Windows (I have mostly 64-bit machines) so I thought I'd ask about
> Octave for 64-bits.  I also boot openSuSE 11.0 but can't really use it
> routinely yet because my laboratory equipment is all tied to Windows
> drivers.

I don't use Windows, so I simply don't know what can be done with
respect to 64 bit applications. For now, I think the only way to get a
64 bit version for Windows is to build it from source.

Søren