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Re: 4.0 release goals
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Philip Nienhuis |
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Re: 4.0 release goals |
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Thu, 1 Nov 2012 14:04:38 -0700 (PDT) |
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso-2 wrote
> I would like to propose some rather ambitious goals for 4.0, and I
> think we should be bold enough to use a major version number.
>
> In case you missed it in the help list, there's an interesting thread
> about the GUI. Israel Herraiz forked it and stabilised it:
>
>
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/When-will-the-new-GUI-be-ready-tp4645798p4645846.html
>
> I would like to prioritise getting the GUI stabilised so we can start
> contemplating making a release. I think our 4.0 release goals should
> be:
>
> - fltk enabled by default
> - Stable GUI
> - JIT compiling working
> - Windows and Mac OS X binaries
>
> We're already made many inroads into many of these goals. What do you
> guys think, can we do it?
IMO bug #34631 is a showstopper for Windows binaries. Gnuplot is also
affected.
As far as I could investigate it could be a problem in the fontconfig libs
or -code. Perhaps overflow related to the majority of Windows installations
having 100-200 fonts or more installed, i.e. much more than the average *nix
installation. But that's just a guess. Maybe it is a memory leak, who knows.
As to the other features, I'd agree they should all be in a 4.0. Perhaps
they can be integrated stepwise in a 3.8.x version.
I've seen the Octave on Windows 8 bug reports; but I think that shouldn't
stop us from releasing 4.0.
Philip
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- Re: 4.0 release goals, (continued)
- Re: 4.0 release goals, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2012/11/01
- Re: 4.0 release goals, Daniel J Sebald, 2012/11/01
- Re: 4.0 release goals, Israel Herraiz, 2012/11/01
- Re: 4.0 release goals, Richard, 2012/11/03
- Re: 4.0 release goals, Max Brister, 2012/11/03
- Re: 4.0 release goals, Richard Crozier, 2012/11/03
Re: 4.0 release goals, Michael D. Godfrey, 2012/11/01
Re: 4.0 release goals, Ben Abbott, 2012/11/01
Re: 4.0 release goals,
Philip Nienhuis <=
Re: 4.0 release goals, Michael D. Godfrey, 2012/11/01
Re: 4.0 release goals, tom yengst, 2012/11/03
Re: 4.0 release goals, Ben Abbott, 2012/11/04