[Pkg-octave-devel] check.m for the forge packages

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-Mar-2008, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote:

| I was looking through the forge packages for a test routine in them, I
| just did a grep on them and searched for %!test in the .m files and
| the following packages came up with nothing:
| 
| audio, combinatorics, control, econometrics, financial, general, gsl,
| ident, irsa, miscellaneous, octgpr, odebvp, optiminterp, outliers,
| parallel, physicalconstants, plot, sockets, special, strings, struct,
| symbolic, time, vrml, zenity
| 
| Now, that is a lot of packages. Should we drop this check.m routine or
| is there something I am missing in this? (I don't quite understand how
| the test function in octave works).

The "%!test" line is not necessary, so you might find more files if
you also searched for "%!assert".

jwe