Performance issues on Windows, suggests a MSVC build

[Thomas Weber]

Hi, 
apologies if this mail breaks threading, but I had to copy the
"In-Reply-To" header by hand from 
https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2011-June/024116.html
The mail never seemed to have reached my inbox.

On 27-Jun-2011, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 27-Jun-2011, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > Eh, no. I don't think that a soname of 0.0.0 is a sign of a properly
> > handled soname. This is not an issue in itself right now, but soname
> > handling isn't that easy - I can't tell you much about it due to lack
> > of knowledge on my part. But as I said, it doesn't matter much - it's
> > a non-issue right now.

> What number should we have used as a starting point?

Right, that shall teach my not to jump to conclusions. I thought the
0.0.0 just happens to be added by libtool automatically, not that it was
the actual start for the soname numbering.

However, I think that the 3.2 series did the following by default:
        ln -s liboctave.so liboctave.so.3.2.4
If that is true (can't check right now), I suggest starting with
something that is bigger than 3.2.4 as soname.

        Thomas




On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 03:18:39PM -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 12-May-2011, Rik wrote:
> 
> | This is a somewhat different e-mail than usual.  I don't have a question
> | about code, rather a question about coding.  It's quite nice that Octave
> | has programmers from all over the globe contributing, but we all work alone
> | (On mourra seul, aussi).  There is a social dimension to coding which I
> | first got a chance to see while working on a code sprint with the gEDA
> | project and I would like to replicate with Octave.
> | 
> | Basically, we would set a time and a place (#octave IRC channel) to gather
> | for a coding session.  Having the necessary people together can really
> | speed up development because the turn-around time for questions is nearly
> | instantaneous.  For example, it seems like the FLTK backend is very,
> | nearly, almost, 99% ready to become the default plotting engine.  Would it
> | be useful for the graphics group in Octave to get together and work out
> | amongst themselves the remaining issues?  I think of that sort of gathering
> | as a Code Klatcsh since it is getting the right people together without
> | definitive goals.
> | 
> | Alternatively, we could issue a challenge and have a code sprint.  This
> | could be something like halving the number of outstanding bug reports, or
> | writing tests to get 100% function coverage, or some other goal entirely.
> | It can be exciting to see bugs being zapped right and left and finishing
> | the day with 100 commits to the repository.  Depending on the challenge, we
> | can also get other non-routine contributors to join the sprint.  More work
> | is done, although luminaries like jwe probably get to do more advising on
> | the IRC channel than coding.
> | 
> | Have I explained the concept well enough?  Does this seem like a good idea?
> |  If so, I think it would be mostly workable.  JWE is at GMT-5 which means
> | an early Saturday morning coffee and code session for him would be an
> | afternoon coding session for Europe.
> 
> Sorry for the delay in responding to this message.
> 
> I don't normally use IRC/chat/instant message things but I would be
> willing to give this a try if others are interested.
> 
> I've also been thinking about doing something like what Matt Mackall
> has tried to allow him to spend more time working on Mercurial.  See
> item 4 on the following page:
> 
>   http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/mpm
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm not sure how well that is working out for the
> longer term since the status is that the funding apparently runs out
> this month...  But I'd also be willing to have some consistent "office
> hours" if there was some funding to pay me to do that.
> 
> jwe