Re: Spreadsheet support in core Octave instead of io package?

[Michael Goffioul]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:45 PM, John W. Eaton <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?

Michael.