On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:45 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden
<mailto:address@hidden>> 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?
Do you plan to import all the XLS interfaces supported by the io
package, or strip down the ones you don't want to support?