Re: Release plans for the GUI

[Marco atzeri]

On 9/12/2011 6:48 PM, Richard Crozier wrote:
>   On 12/09/2011 17:41, Marco atzeri wrote:
> > On 9/12/2011 6:05 PM, Richard Crozier wrote:
> > > I tried going down the Cygwin route, I installed it and found that xterm
> > > wouldn't even work, I just gave up as I didn't even know where to look
> > > for a solution. I would promote Linux in VirtualBox over Cygwin any day.
> >
> > xterm is fine on cygwin, I do not see major complaints
> > on cygwin mailing lists.
> >
> > Plotting from Octave is suffering a bug on cygwin-1.7.9 ,
> > current snapshots are fine so next cygwin-1.7.10 should
> > solve the issue.
> >
> > Marco
>
> Ahh, I remember now, you're right, it was the plot function that was the
> problem, although you get a message about being unable to launch xterm
> or something like this.
>
> I just thought that if I can't even plot a graph, what's the point in
> continuing, who knows what else doesn't work?

Hi Richard,
almost everything is working on 3.4.2-1

Summary:

  PASS   7022
  FAIL      9

and the failure are just NaN vs Inf discrepancy
on complex number representation.

The plot issue is not a octave bug and I suggest
to run octave from a cygwin snapshot

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2011-08/msg00003.html

Regards
MArco