Re: 4.0 release goals

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 1, 2012, at 12:59 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso 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.

Since the gui build process was integrated into the CLI build process, the gui 
has not run under MacOS X.  I'm not certain, but I think gnuplot had a similar 
problem.

        http://www.digipedia.pl/usenet/thread/12789/10528/#post10548

When I try to run the gui, I get the error below (repeated 16 times).  Which is 
the same error encountered by the gnuplot developers.

The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality 
safely. You MUST exec().
Break on 
__THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__()
 to debug.

Fixing this is beyond my abilities. but I can test patches.

Ben