JuliaLang/METADATA.jl — pull request #1823 by ayakimovich (2014-12-06 11:07:39+00:00)
Title: Please register MatlabCompat.jl (previously mfun.jl)

Dear all,

Thanks a lot for your comments. Indeed, in my opinion the community, especially academic community (where I work), is carving for an instrument to assist in converting legacy MATLAB/Octave code. The Images package is a great piece of work, in fact, I'm using it a lot. However, as I see it, Images goes a much more innovative way compared to MATLAB approaches and obviously addressing the needs of code conversion is not the goal of Images. However, Images developers are more than welcome to use the code from my package, although, I'm pretty sure @timholy and others would prefer to change it significantly to match the direction Images is developing into.

Instead I think that with this package I would, indeed, like to address the compatibility of legacy MATLAB code. I still have a concern that I might not have enough resources to make this package comprehensive and complete. However, I think this can be addressed by making this repository into an organization (not bound solely to my github account) with multiple Admins etc. I have also approached several colleagues who said they would gladly co-administer this package with me. I'm sure We could find more interested people in the community.

Finally to address the concerns on following the naming convention I have renamed the package into MatlabCompat.jl as suggested by @StefanKarpinski. I have made a new organization, homepage(http://matlabcompat.github.io/) and repository (https://github.com/MatlabCompat/MatlabCompat.jl). Therefore I'm deleting this repository.

I will also generate another pull request from the new repository. It's, of course, up to you to decide whether you would like to register a package at this early point of it's development. However I think that registering it will help a great deal to attract a bigger audience and build a stronger community behind it.

Thanks in advance.