From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Jan 29 13:14:46 1999
Subject: liboctave
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: David Agraz <dagraz at abel dot MATH dot HARVARD dot EDU>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 13:14:41 -0600 (CST)

On 29-Jan-1999, David Agraz <dagraz at abel dot MATH dot HARVARD dot EDU> wrote:

| Suppose I were interested in stripping down liboctave to make a C++ numeric
| library -- ie I want to use octave's matrix and related classes, but am not
| interested in doing any mucking about with the interpreter.
| 
| a) How difficult would this be?
| b) Is anyone working on this already, and if so
| c) where can I find them, how are they doing and do they need any help.

I don't think it would be hard.  You can use it as a standalone
numeric library now, but it depends on readline, glob, and other
non-numeric libraries.  If you don't mind linking those in even though
they are not needed, you don't have to modify the code.

I have plans to split liboctave into the numerical stuff and the
OS/user stuff.  It just requires Makefile modifications, I think.
If you want to do the work and submit the changes, that would be
useful.

Thanks,

jwe