[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60123] method methods and ismethod silently changed: includes constructors now

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #10, bug #60123 (project octave):

[Thread drift alert]
That further Java development in Octave is "refused" may be perceived that way
but I think there's more nuance behind the scenes.

As an example, we have had issues in the past with Java JVMs apparently
fiddling with CPU flags which somehow seemed to affect numerical results
elsewhere in Octave's code base. Maybe an extreme example, but bearing such
things in mind I can follow the core devs being reluctant to adapt changes to
the Java subsystem if the consequences aren't fully understood.
Plus, we're all volunteers and all lack time and as a consequence we pick up
the things we're most familiar with. Again, as it happens Java is not in the
lucky collection of subjects.

As to javachk and version:

javachk.m (that I wrote) needs to stay Matlab-compatible; same for usejava.m.
Matlab's output tmplate for these allows no easy way to return the version.
But I'll post s/th in bug #60058.


    _______________________________________________________

Reply to this item at:

  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60123>

_______________________________________________
  Message sent via Savannah
  https://savannah.gnu.org/