Re: 3.6.0 release

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 23, 2011, at 8:17 AM, logari81 wrote:

> On 11/22/2011 10:36 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>> I would like to focus on making the 3.6.0 release soon.
>> 
>> If you know of important problems that should be fixed, please make
>> sure they are in the bug tracker and listed with a serverity of
>> important or blocker.  That way we can sort the list of reported bugs
>> by severity and work on the most important bugs first.  But please
>> don't tag every problem that you would like to see fixed as a blocker,
>> as that would not be not helpful.  Here are some guidelines to decide
>> whether a problem should be tagged with blocker or important severity:
>> 
>>   * the problem is a regression (i.e., the feature worked in a
>>     previous version of Octave)
>> 
>>   * the problem causes a crash that can be duplicated on multiple
>>     systems and is something that is likely to affect many users.
>> 
>>   * the problem leads to incorrect results, can be duplicated on
>>     multiple systems, and is likely to affect many users.
>> 
>> jwe
> I have just found a regression in the fltk backend. Legend text will not show 
> up with the current default branch:
> 
> octave:1> graphics_toolkit fltk
> octave:2> plot(0:5,0:5)
> octave:3> legend('test text')
> 
> if this is confirmed and no one else is available for fixing it, I will do it 
> before the 3.6 release.
> 
> Kostas

Your example works for me on MacOS with fltk-1.1.10-aqua

However, I notice that some of the diplaynames are missing when running demos. 
This is not repeatable. When running the demos a second time, I see different 
missing displaynames.

Ben