[Pkg-octave-devel] Fwd: Popcon stats for the DOG packages
Philip Nienhuis
pr.nienhuis at hccnet.nl
Sun Mar 11 20:44:39 UTC 2012
Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Philip Nienhuis<pr.nienhuis at hccnet.nl> writes:
>
>> On my Linux boxes (Mandriva), Octave can read/write .xls and .ods w/o any
>> problems using io and java pkgs.
>> For a little while I tried Ubuntu - worked OK there as well.
>
> I can't tell for these distributions. But on Debian, xlsread currently
> fails, even with the java package installed (which itself installs a
> JRE, of course). I am going to investigate it, and report any problem if
> it turns out that it is not Debian specific.
There's this function file in io pkg (since v. 1.0.15) that may be of help:
chk_spreadsheet_support.m
(see its help)
I wrote it especially to automate a lot of straightforward
troubleshooting and javaclasspath setup.
Furthermore, since io-1.0.17 I have included some rough test scripts
(because spreadsheet I/O testing isn't easily included in function test
sections).
These test scripts serve more fine-grained troubleshooting (actually
rather checking for proper operation & bug hunting) once the actual I/O
itself is working.
Please report io pkg problems to the octave-forge mailing list plus -if
you want- directly to me (my SF address, which is in the function files).
Thanks,
Philip
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