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Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet?
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Tatsuro MATSUOKA |
Subject: |
Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet? |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:40:13 +0900 (JST) |
Hello
At least, for windows, fntests have not been completed yet.
(mktemps seems does not work correctly.
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/datestr-datenum-1969-1-1-0-does-not-work-on-octave-3-3-51-on-MinGW-td3046101.html)
I also have not check the fltk printing.
As far as I remember, printing cannot be possible from some moment but I have
not reported yet.
(Sorry for my laziness)
Build itself has been done well, I think that problems can be solved in the
releasing processes.
Anyway I would like to hurry up to finding and reporting the issues on the
MinGW build.
Regards
Tatsuro
--- "John W. Eaton" wrote:
> Looking back in my mail archive, I see we discussed releasing 3.4
> about a year ago, then again in July, then yet again in September. So
> now you must be thinking that if I start to talk about a release, it
> is probably just talk. But really, I would like to make a release
> relatively soon. I think it is way overdue. We are seeing a lot of
> reports for bugs that have already been fixed. We have a lot of new
> features that people would probably like to be using. So what
> important things need to happen before we can create the 3.4.0
> tarball? My unordered list is
>
> * Take one last shot at editing and updating the NEWS file.
>
> * Update copyright years.
>
> * Add @DOCSTRING entries (and more descriptive info if possible) for
> all functions that are currently missing from the manual.
>
> Some things that would be nice to have but not essential if they can't
> or don't happen:
>
> * Other documentation edits/improvements.
>
> * Reduce the number of open bug reports. I'm not concerned with
> trying to close all or even most of the current set of reports
> before the release, but we should try to fix critical problems,
> regressions, or problems that many people will likely notice.
> Browsing the list of open reports, it looks like many are graphics
> related, and then there are a few obscure problems or feature
> requests. Are there any absolutely critical bugs that must be
> fixed before a release happens? Maybe the problem with indexed
> assignment and empty arrays (bug #31287). Are there any critical
> plotting problems?
>
> * Merge John Swensen's imread/imwrite changes.
>
> * Make FLTK plotting work well enough to use by default. I doubt
> this is a reasonable goal for a time horizon of a few weeks, so I
> don't expect it. But I think this should be a high priority for
> the next stable release after 3.4.
>
> Anything else?
>
> I could also list a lot of features that I would like to have, but
> none are likely to happen in a few weeks, so it would probably be best
> to not delay a release much longer. We could do that forever (as it
> seems we already have).
>
> Comments?
>
> jwe
>
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