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Re: Any outstanding bugs before rc4?
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John Swensen |
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Re: Any outstanding bugs before rc4? |
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Mon, 7 Nov 2016 10:30:47 -0800 |
> On Nov 7, 2016, at 9:19 AM, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 11/17/16
>
> I checked in changes to fix bug #49509 and #49501 this morning. Does
> anyone know of anything else that must be fixed before the next release
> candidate (rc4) is made?
>
> --Rik
>
Definitely not something that will get fixed in the near future, but Octave 4.2
has been really bad on OSX (Homebrew built). Octave 4.0.3 is quite usable, so
it isn’t a show stopper but would recommend that 4.2 not be considered a
“stable release” for OSX. I think most of the the OSX problems already have bug
reports, but here are the ones that are the most problematic:
1) Doesn’t handle Apple retina displays well. I’m not quite sure why this
wasn’t an issue with 4.03, but is with 4.2.
2) I get the GUI hanging about 50% of the time I try and plot things. It
happens less when I take the plotting commands out of the script/function and
execute them from the command line.
3) The GUI hangs almost every single time when trying to close Octave. I can
reduce the likelihood of this happening if I execute a “clear all; close all;”
before trying to exit, but it isn’t 100%.
I have been trying to get a Homebrew version with debug symbols built so I can
start looking at (2) and (3), and submitted a first step patch for (1), but
these three alone make 4.2 virtually unusable on OSX.
John S.