TR: [sciclub] Scilab news

[THOMAS Paul Richard]

Since I work for one of the organisations in the Scilab Consortium, I feel
"honour bound" to circulate this to you all.  Scilab is going to get serious
support; in particular, the consortium is going to sponsor 5 people to work
on it full-time.  You will be able to read of where Scilab is going - in
particular, a major release, version 3, is slated for next year.  Version
2.7 is already quite serious; in particular for the introduction of handle
graphics, à la Matlab.  The native Windows version is noticably slicker than
that for Unix but they are functionally identical.

One major initiative, that has bought Scilab a lot of support, is its use as
a teaching aid in French high schools.  Aparently, 10s of thousands of
teenagers have tested it to death!

However, the consortium represents some very serious, large-scale users and
I expect that we will see some rapid development here.

Paul 

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Serge Steer [mailto:address@hidden
Envoyé : jeudi 27 novembre 2003 17:14
À : address@hidden
Objet : [sciclub] Scilab news



Please find below news about the Scilab developpment.

1/ Consortium:
An international consortium have been created in May 2003 to boost the
developpment of the free software Scilab.
See: http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/consortium/consortium.html. 


2/ Scilab Tracking System: 
Scilab development team proposes the Scilab tracking system, a tool to
share and take advantage of the experiment of the Scilab community
(developers and users). Scilab tracking system is a bugzilla-based
system, it is a centralized web-database tracking system for Scilab bugs
and Scilab requests. In order to help us to progress, we encourage you
to use now Scilab tracking system.
See: <http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/cgi-bin/bugzilla_bug/index.cgi> .


3/ Contributed Toolbox: A new Open-Source Finite Element Toolbox
(OpenFEM) (from MACS INRIA project and SDTools) is available. some
others have been recently updated (HMM, COSMAD, RLTOOL PREST_BOX)
See: http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/contributions.html


4/ Scilab release 3.0
Scilab release 3.0 will be available to middle of  2004. This new
version will include:
 - the handling of graphics objects 2D and 3D
 - a new version of "m2sci" functions (mfile2sci() and others.)
 - an optimized windows version
 - a more convenient editor Scipad
 - Many Scicos improvements (GUI + Implicit systems)
 - more efficient hypermatrix
 - some fixed bugs


Regards
-- 
Serge Steer
email: address@hidden
news:comp.soft-sys.math.scilab
http://www.scilab.org/scilab
fax: (33) 01 39 63 57 86

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