Re: Google's "summer of code"

[Bill Denney]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, John Swensen wrote:

> Well, I went ahead and started a group action at fundable.org.  We'll 
> see if it works out.  The company where a co-worker's wife works may be 
> interested in donating to this effort.  They are a small company (~10 
> people) who have found the cost of Matlab prohibitve in recent years and 
> are in the process of switching to Octave.  Anyone interested can see it 
> at
>
> https://www.fundable.org/groupactions/octave_handle_graphics

One goal of Octave is to not create bug-for-bug compatability with Matlab. 
Some work has already been done on defining a standard for the front-end 
representation of Object Graphics that should allow compatability with 
matlab's representation while allowing a more intuitive interface: 
http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?ObjectGraphics

> From this front-end standard, we are wanting to allow multiple backends 
that can conform to this standard (perhaps with their own annotations).

The goal is to have a better system while keeping compatibility in mind.

Bill

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