Re: Octave 4.0 is approaching...

[Rik]

On 02/05/2015 11:40 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 02/05/2015 01:54 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> On 02/02/2015 10:14 AM, Rik wrote:
>>> The Octave Team is beginning the release cycle for Octave version 4.0.
>>> This is a major release which will include a GUI as the default interface,
>>> support for object oriented programming techniques using classdef syntax,
>>> and pre-built and tested binaries for the Windows operating system.
>>
>> So, I'm wondering if we should try to get Octave 4.0 into Fedora 22:
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/22/Schedule
>>
>> If we were, we would want an RC ASAP that we could build before the
>> branch on
>> the 10th, and and a reasonably stable/final release by around 4/14, so
>> things
>> are pretty tight.
>
> Sorry, but I doubt that we will be ready to make a release candidate in
> just 5 days.

Alas, I also doubt that we can get to a release candidate in 5 days.  The
open period for bug reporting doesn't end until Sunday, and there is still
quite a bit of new code to incorporate in addition to the bug fixes.

--Rik