jupyter-notebook needs json >= 1.5.0

[lostbard]

Octave 7 included json functions already so shouldnt need the json package as a dependancy

The json package also wont install due to the functions already available in octave.

[siko1056]

This is true. I think Octave 7 is already wide spread enough to safely assume jsonencode and jsondecode are present in Octave. If not, a small help text could be provided.

@Abdallah-Elshamy are you interested in working on this?

[Abdallah-Elshamy]

@siko1056, I am interested. A simple solution for this would be simply to change the requirements to:

depends: octave (>= 7.1.0)

However this will not work for older versions' users that use the json package.

Another solution will be to remove depends and make the check in another place. I am not sure where is the best place to do so:

• One simple place is at the constructor of the class by checking exist("jsonencode") but this will not prevent the package from being installed without the needed functions.
• Another possible place is a package/pre_install.m script that does that. But, I am not sure if this kind of scripts is suitable for such checks as I did not use them before