Tablicious in Octave Forge [was: Re: [GSoC 2021] How should I do now with project Table datatype]

On 3/8/21 11:13 PM, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
> On 3/8/21 6:51 PM, 陈栋林 wrote:
>> I have seen that you are the potential mentors in the project Table 
>> datatype. How should I do now with this project for applying gsoc? How 
>> can I make my first contribution? Thank you
> 
> Thank you for your interest in GSoC with Octave.  Yes, I am willing to 
> mentor a project on creating a Matlab compatible table datatype [1].

Since we're on the subject...

I know there hasn't been much enthusiasm for this in the past, but is 
there any chance I could get y'all interested in including Tablicious 
[1] in Octave Forge as an "External" package? Even if table arrays make 
it in to core Octave from the GSoC work, I think Tablicious could be 
useful as a transitional package or to support older versions of Octave 
(which I think are still in kind-of wide use?). And it also provides 
datetimes, categoricals, and (half-assed) string arrays.

Cheers,
Andrew

[1] https://github.com/apjanke/octave-tablicious