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From: | Bill Denney |
Subject: | Re: moving toward a 3.0 release |
Date: | Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:07:28 -0400 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) |
David Bateman wrote:
OK, so I've been completely swamped with other work recently. I have written many m-files, but I've not had time to dedicate to making a graphics front end. That said, the code that I posed back in May was an excellent skeleton, it just needed many external features implemented (i.e. I think it had lines, patches, axes, figures and other stuff-- like I said I've not looked at it in a while).God please don't point the finger at me.... What I'd like is some feedback from Bill and Shai on what they think is needed, set a feature freeze date for octave 3.0 but not at 2.9.9, call 2.9.9 a testing release and the first release after the feature freeze call it 3.0rc1. If graphics handles are ready at the feature freeze then accept them, otherwise go for a release without them. The only question in the above is when is the feature freeze. Can we just wait for feedback from Bill and Shai before fixing that date?
One of the major difficulties I had is that I don't know gnuplot well, and I therefore had difficulty trying to make gnuplot work with the frontend. Without a good backend, it's tough to test the frontend. The other problem is that with the speed of the interpreter, it takes ~30 second to create first figure.
Bill
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