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Re: test scripts
From: |
James R. Van Zandt |
Subject: |
Re: test scripts |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Apr 2000 21:19:41 -0400 (EDT) |
jwe writes:
>I've also been having a discussion with Etienne Grossmann
>about how to speed up acceptance of patches.
>
>...Part of the problem is that I am busy. Part of the problem is
>that the patches often have problems. I hope that we can arrive at
>some way to make things go faster.
>
>I'm concerned that applying any patch no matter how it is written,
>will make the sources less coherent, harder to read, and ultimately,
>harder to maintain. It would help me if people would follow the
>coding conventions of the existing Octave sources when submitting
>patches, but I'd like to know whether people think it is an
>unreasonable request.
Which reminds me - what are the prospects for getting HDF and MATLAB 5
format file I/O into Octave? (I did try to follow the existing coding
conventions. :-)
- Jim Van Zandt