Re: 3.2.x

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:12 PM, David Bateman
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I couldn't help noticing that the amount of work to port patches from
>> development to 3.0.x increased lately (though it may well be a
>> coincidence), as the code has diverged in many places. Perhaps it is
>> time to fork a fresh stable branch?
>> What do you think? Is the world ready for Octave 3.2.x? Is Octave ready?
>>
>>
>
> The status report for 3.2 still has a number of points to address before a
> 3.2.x release in particular
>
>  1. Objects:
>        - Operator overloading vs. constant folding
>
>  +. Handle block comments.  This is not quite finished as block
>     comments inside [] or {}, and also in the group of comments
>     following a continuation character, etc., are not handled.  See
>     the FIXME comments in lex.l.
>

> 11. Graphics:
>    Basically I believe we need to use the listeners, etc that were
> introduced to make the newly added code useful. I have been working on this,
> bug have bugs at the moment I can't trace down.
>
>
>  Other tasks that should be considered before the release:
>
>   * Document the graphics changes made by Shai/Michael as needed. (though
> I've tried to do this a bit)
>
>   * Document the object oriented stuff in a new chapter.
>
>   * Document the use of private directories.
>
>   * Document other functions that were ported from octave-forge (eg
>     imread, dlmwrite, etc)
>
>   + Update the NEWS file.
>
> So, there are still a number of things to do, particularly in the
> documentation.


Hmm, just what I was afraid of; no area I'm immediatelly familiar
with. I know virtually nothing about the OO stuff or the graphics
stuff. Perhaps I could look at those block comments.

thanks

> Regards
> David
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