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Re: 3.2.x
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Jaroslav Hajek |
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Re: 3.2.x |
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Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:52:09 +0200 |
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:12 PM, David Bateman
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I couldn't help noticing that the amount of work to port patches from
>> development to 3.0.x increased lately (though it may well be a
>> coincidence), as the code has diverged in many places. Perhaps it is
>> time to fork a fresh stable branch?
>> What do you think? Is the world ready for Octave 3.2.x? Is Octave ready?
>>
>>
>
> The status report for 3.2 still has a number of points to address before a
> 3.2.x release in particular
>
> 1. Objects:
> - Operator overloading vs. constant folding
>
> +. Handle block comments. This is not quite finished as block
> comments inside [] or {}, and also in the group of comments
> following a continuation character, etc., are not handled. See
> the FIXME comments in lex.l.
>
> 11. Graphics:
> Basically I believe we need to use the listeners, etc that were
> introduced to make the newly added code useful. I have been working on this,
> bug have bugs at the moment I can't trace down.
>
>
> Other tasks that should be considered before the release:
>
> * Document the graphics changes made by Shai/Michael as needed. (though
> I've tried to do this a bit)
>
> * Document the object oriented stuff in a new chapter.
>
> * Document the use of private directories.
>
> * Document other functions that were ported from octave-forge (eg
> imread, dlmwrite, etc)
>
> + Update the NEWS file.
>
> So, there are still a number of things to do, particularly in the
> documentation.
Hmm, just what I was afraid of; no area I'm immediatelly familiar
with. I know virtually nothing about the OO stuff or the graphics
stuff. Perhaps I could look at those block comments.
thanks
> Regards
> David
>
>
>
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- 3.2.x, Jaroslav Hajek, 2008/09/22
- Re: 3.2.x, David Bateman, 2008/09/22
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- Re: 3.2.x, John W. Eaton, 2008/09/22
- Re: 3.2.x, Jaroslav Hajek, 2008/09/23
- Re: 3.2.x, Michael Goffioul, 2008/09/23
- Re: 3.2.x, Jaroslav Hajek, 2008/09/23
- Re: 3.2.x, John W. Eaton, 2008/09/23
- Re: 3.2.x, Michael Goffioul, 2008/09/23
- Re: 3.2.x, John W. Eaton, 2008/09/23
- Re: 3.2.x, John W. Eaton, 2008/09/23
- Re: 3.2.x, Jaroslav Hajek, 2008/09/23