Re: java package

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-May-2012, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

| On 9 May 2012 12:49, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
| > I received a request to make the java package from Octave Forge part
| > of Octave.  A number of the functions provided by the Octave Forge
| > java package are distributed as part of Matlab, not a separate
| > toolbox, so it makes sense to me to include them in Octave as well.
| > Is there any objection to doing that?
| 
| Oh god... Java...? Has it come to this?

For the record, the person who made the request is not a big fan of
Java, but apparently has some use for it and finds it inconvenient
that it is a separate package.  If these functions were not part of
core Matlab, I would simply tell him that we are not including them in
Octave.  But since they are part of core Matlab, it seems reasonable
to me to include them in Octave as well, since Matlab users moving
code to Octave expect them to be available.

jwe