Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave.

[Joao Cardoso]

On Thursday 19 June 2003 01:53, Andy Adler wrote:
|  On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, John W. Eaton wrote:
|  > Related to all this, I've been thinking about a complete overhaul of
|  > the way matrix objects are handled in Octave.  For example, instead of
|  > having many different octave_value types to support various types of
|  > matrix objects, we could have one for all matrix-like objects.  But
|  > this will be a lot more work, and I'm not sure whether it is really
|  > feasible at this point.  It could break a lot of code.  OTOH, if this
|  > is something that would improve and simplify the internals of Octave,
|  > then it will only break more code if the change is delayed.
|
|  John,
|
|  I propose that, instead of making any large changes now, that you
|  release octave 2.2 or 3.0 as soon as possible. This is important
|  because 2.0 is essentially unsupported now, and people are
|  reluctant to use an unstable (2.1) version.

And some distributors also. Octave is not available under SuSE since SuSE-8.0; 
the problem, I think, is that the stable octave version can't be compiled 
with the shipped gcc.

Joao 

|  The recent releases have been very stable. Adding a few features
|  from octave-forge, and releasing a 2.2pre series now would get
|  a lot of testers to flush out remaining bugs.
|
|  This will allow an overhall of matrix objects to be under less
|  time pressure.
|
|  Andy