Re: Friday musings: missing function thoughts

[John W. Eaton]

On 01/20/2017 06:30 PM, Nicholas Jankowski wrote:

> It would be great if there was a way to say: octave 4.x is fully
> compatible with base Matlab 2012 or similar. Its a fixed point in time
> and the function set won't change. When someone shows up asking what to
> work on, you could say: well here's all that's left to get us compatible
> with Matlab 2013... toolboxes are another issue.

I don't think this is a reasonable goal because Matlab changes.  Being 
compatible with an old version may mean an incompatibility with the 
current version.

You are welcome to write and contribute whatever functions you choose, 
but I think that attempting to implement all functions from some version 
of Matlab just so you can claim full coverage is probably not the best 
use of time.  Working on functions and features that you need, or that 
are more widely used seems like a more important thing to me.

jwe