Re: gui-release branch CLOSED

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 01/30/2015 07:16 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> After the following discussion, I've closed the gui-release branch.
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> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2015-01/msg00226.html
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> and
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> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2015-01/msg00226.html
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> Please make all bug fixes and enhancements on the default branch now.

OK, I'm trying things out here...

Why is the "make install" taking so long?  It used to take just ten 
seconds or so, but now it takes over a minute doing all sorts of library 
operations like, what looks like, linking and reinstalling.  Is it just 
me with some outdated tools?

The default build now comes up as 4.1.0+.  A few posts back was some 
mention about the next release being 4.0.0.  What is the next version 
and where in the source tree will it be?  Is stable?

So I understand what this classdef issue is, what are we to be watching 
out for in terms of bugs?  Here's one thing I notice at startup:

warning: strmatch is obsolete and will be removed from a future version 
of Octave,please use strncmp, strcmp, or regexp instead
warning: called from
    strmatch at line 63 column 5
    unique at line 53 column 16
    installed_packages at line 44 column 10
    load_packages at line 26 column 22
    pkg at line 419 column 7
    /usr/local/share/octave/4.1.0+/m/startup/octaverc at line 20 column 1

Is this related to classdef (Rik gave an example of a strfind error)? 
Line 20 of the default startup is:

pkg ("load", "auto");

Dan

A side comment after looking at the HTML graph in the repository:  I 
generally like the HTML interface for Mercurial, but I sure wish the 
graph feature had a key to go along with the color-coded branches.  I 
know that the branch names appear next to the changesets, but I can't 
ever seem to make sense of what the connections are in the branch graph. 
 On the other hand, TortoiseHg has a graph that is a much clearer 
depiction of what is happening.  It lists the branch name in color and 
uses a color dot that coincides with that branch name.