[OctDev] My patches for octaveforge pkgs Mingw build

2012-09-15 Thread nitnit
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > Nitzan, can you please publish the sources you've used to build MinGW? > It's a little worrisom that we're in effect distributing GPL-violating > MinGW binaries. > Attached are the patches I have

Re: [OctDev] inputname and function(cell{:})

2012-09-15 Thread Lukas Reichlin
On 15.09.2012, at 16:52, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > Lukas, > > This is just off the top of my head and I didn't look at your code in > detail, but how about using a struct instead of a cell to pass the > arguments and getting the names of the variables with the fieldnames > function? > >

[OctDev] Non-linear optimization: optim-1.2.1 released

2012-09-15 Thread Carnë Draug
Hi everyone a new release of the optim package is out, version 1.2.1, by Olaf Till. Enjoy Octave responsibly. Carnë -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynami

[OctDev] control 2.3.54 released

2012-09-15 Thread Carnë Draug
Hi everyone a new release of the control package is out, version 2.3.54, by Lukas Reichlin. Enjoy Octave responsibly. Carnë -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download A

Re: [OctDev] On the union of two communities - The GNU Octave atmosphere

2012-09-15 Thread Júlio Hoffimann
> > This post on Carnë's blog summarizes the discussion about > Octave/Octave-Forge/Agora > at OctConf2012. A preview of Agora is here http://agora.octave.org/. > > HTH, > c. > I see Agora as another level of contribution, namely http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/. In which users can submit

Re: [OctDev] On the union of two communities - The GNU Octave atmosphere

2012-09-15 Thread Júlio Hoffimann
Hi Daniel, > There are three, maybe four levels of Octave code: > > 1) Core Octave written in C++ (i.e., compiled code) > 2) Commonly-used, moderately-general m-scripts (i.e., interpreted code) > 3) Compiled or scripted code related to user interface, whether that be a > graphics engine, GUI/IDE,

[OctDev] On the union of two communities - The GNU Octave atmosphere

2012-09-15 Thread Júlio Hoffimann
Dear all, Before entering the atmosphere, i want to thank you all from outside, as an external admirer. You all did a great job providing a free alternative (pick any interpretation) for scientists explore the boundaries of knowledge with no constraints on what they can or cannot do with the tools

Re: [OctDev] On the union of two communities - The GNU Octave atmosphere

2012-09-15 Thread Júlio Hoffimann
Agora is a good place to discuss about the packages, missing implementations, feature requests: the community feedback. But i still think the development efforts should be united in a single main repository, and people decide in what parts they can help. By the way, Agora is very beautiful. Júlio

[OctDev] control-2.3.54 released in package forum - please upload

2012-09-15 Thread Lukas Reichlin
Hi all, I've just sent control-2.3.54 (SVN Revision 11031) to the OctaveForge maintainers. Please upload it to the server. The changes are listed in the NEWS file [1]. Main new feature is the "multiplot" capability of frequency domain plotting commands. The notice for http://octave.sourceforge

Re: [OctDev] optim-1.2.1

2012-09-15 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Olaf Till [2012-09-15 11:52]: > optim-1.2.1 has been uploaded to the release tracker. This is a bugfix > release, leasqr had not been normally usable if another package > provided a function with a certain name. Thanks for this new release. There are the following spurious files in the tarbal

Re: [OctDev] inputname and function(cell{:})

2012-09-15 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Lukas, This is just off the top of my head and I didn't look at your code in detail, but how about using a struct instead of a cell to pass the arguments and getting the names of the variables with the fieldnames function? HTH, - Jordi G. H. --

Re: [OctDev] On the union of two communities - The GNU Octave atmosphere

2012-09-15 Thread c.
On 15 Sep 2012, at 12:18, Júlio Hoffimann wrote: > Octave Forge packages on the other hand are much more like MATLAB Toolboxes, > they're developed by MathWorks itself, and are part of the software > atmosphere, really. by the way: 1) Most Octave Forge packages are not currently developed by O

Re: [OctDev] On the union of two communities - The GNU Octave atmosphere

2012-09-15 Thread c.
On 15 Sep 2012, at 12:18, Júlio Hoffimann wrote: > I see Agora as another level of contribution, namely > http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/. > > In which users can submit small snippets of code, little functions and > doesn't have to even know about coding standards - non-reviewed submis

[OctDev] optim-1.2.1

2012-09-15 Thread Olaf Till
Hi, optim-1.2.1 has been uploaded to the release tracker. This is a bugfix release, leasqr had not been normally usable if another package provided a function with a certain name. Olaf -- public key id EAFE0591, e.g. on x-hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net signature.asc Description: Digital signat

Re: [OctDev] problems uploading package

2012-09-15 Thread Olaf Till
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:23:22AM +0200, c. wrote: > > On 15 Sep 2012, at 00:20, Olaf Till wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I seem to be unable to use the new package release tracker referenced > > by the developer section of the OF website. > > > > First, it seems to accept only one attachment per po

Re: [OctDev] problems uploading package

2012-09-15 Thread c.
On 15 Sep 2012, at 00:20, Olaf Till wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to be unable to use the new package release tracker referenced > by the developer section of the OF website. > > First, it seems to accept only one attachment per post ... ? no, there is a (very well hidden) link to add another file.

Re: [OctDev] On the union of two communities - The GNU Octave atmosphere

2012-09-15 Thread c.
On 15 Sep 2012, at 10:52, Philip Nienhuis wrote: > Daniel J Sebald wrote: >> On 09/14/2012 06:53 PM, Júlio Hoffimann wrote: >>> Hi Daniel, >>> >>> There are three, maybe four levels of Octave code: >>> >>> 1) Core Octave written in C++ (i.e., compiled code) >>> 2) Commonly-used, mod

Re: [OctDev] On the union of two communities - The GNU Octave atmosphere

2012-09-15 Thread Philip Nienhuis
Daniel J Sebald wrote: > On 09/14/2012 06:53 PM, Júlio Hoffimann wrote: >> Hi Daniel, >> >> There are three, maybe four levels of Octave code: >> >> 1) Core Octave written in C++ (i.e., compiled code) >> 2) Commonly-used, moderately-general m-scripts (i.e., interpreted code) >>

Re: [OctDev] inputname and function(cell{:})

2012-09-15 Thread Lukas Reichlin
On 14.09.2012, at 15:46, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 14 September 2012 09:30, Lukas Reichlin > wrote: >> Currently, with >> >>ret1 = testfun (arg1, arg2, arg3) >> >> nargin is 3 and inputname ranges from 1 to 3. >> But with >> >>ret2 = testfun (args{:}) >> >> nargin i