Hi Tracy, Thanks for getting this started! Given your constraints, I understand why you'd be reluctant to put much effort into this. Still very nice to capture the work you've done already.
I'll wait until the code dump happens before getting into specific on GitHub, but I too am looking forward to the collaboration! Best regards, --Tim On Saturday, February 28, 2015 02:31:25 PM Tracy Wadleigh wrote: > Tim: > > Unfortunately, I haven't made much real progress on this since my initial > post of the gist. > > The last pass I took at it I was making attempts to clean up the julia > initialization (which led to at least one stillborn PR). > > My motivation had flagged a bit, as: > 1. I have limited extra cycles that are already spread thin across a > variety of personal and professional projects; > 2. I have been making an effort to improve my pure-julia workflow (still > very much a work in progress); > 3. for me, matlab is an at work, on windows thing, and I've recently > stopped using julia on windows; [It's a shame, but, unfortunately, the > windows version is simply not good enough for everyday use: significantly > slower startup times, partial or missing backtraces, unacceptably slow git > underneath the package manager, etc. Now my professional uses of julia are > done in an Ubuntu VM hosted on my windows machine. I'd volunteer to make it > better, but see #1.] > 4. I haven't been able to justify to myself that I needed it enough to > invest the time; and, > 5. no one else has needed it. > > Of course, #5 can come off the list now. Besides, I'm more than happy to do > what I can to help out one of the most prolific and generous members of the > Julia community. > > I've just created Mex.jl <https://github.com/twadleigh/Mex.jl>, a stub of a > repo on github and added you as a contributor. It will have to wait until I > get to work on Monday (alas, no remote access---against company policy), > but I will populate it with whatever I have and can probably donate at > least a couple of hours everyday until it's at the point where it meets > your needs. > > I was initially thinking that this stuff could be included in the MATLAB.jl > package, but, looking into it more, there were a lot of choices made > therein that are specific to the matlab-from-julia model. Still very usable > for this effort, but probably better as a dependency. > > We can continue this thread on github. > > I'm looking forward to the collaboration! > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Tim Holy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tracy, any progress on this? I have a sudden need for this myself, and I'd > > be happy to help if there's stuff that needs finishing. > > > > --Tim > > > > On Friday, December 5, 2014 at 10:53:27 AM UTC-6, Tim Holy wrote: > >> Sounds good. It would be for interop in both ways, then. > >> > >> --Tim > >> > >> On Friday, December 05, 2014 08:40:39 AM Tracy Wadleigh wrote: > >> > Rather than doing my own package, I think it makes more sense to try to > >> > >> add > >> > >> > this functionality to the existing MATLAB.jl package, where, for > >> > >> instance, > >> > >> > they already have mxArray marshaling.
