Re: 4.0 release goals

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I would like to propose some rather ambitious goals for 4.0, and I
> think we should be bold enough to use a major version number.
>
> In case you missed it in the help list, there's an interesting thread
> about the GUI. Israel Herraiz forked it and stabilised it:
>
>     
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/When-will-the-new-GUI-be-ready-tp4645798p4645846.html
>
> I would like to prioritise getting the GUI stabilised so we can start
> contemplating making a release. I think our 4.0 release goals should
> be:
>
>     - fltk enabled by default
>     - Stable GUI
>     - JIT compiling working
>     - Windows and Mac OS X binaries
>
> We're already made many inroads into many of these goals. What do you
> guys think, can we do it?
>
> - Jordi G. H.

Hi Jordi,

I just wanted to comment about fltk by default.
In my experience fltk produces bad off-screen output (svg, png, pdf,
etc). Is this a good idea?

Yeah, I know I haven't reported bugs ... I will do it eventually.