Re: 3.6.0 release

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 25, 2011, at 5:22 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 23-Nov-2011, logari81 wrote:
> 
> | On 11/22/2011 10:36 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> | > I would like to focus on making the 3.6.0 release soon.
> | >
> | > If you know of important problems that should be fixed, please make
> | > sure they are in the bug tracker and listed with a serverity of
> | > important or blocker.  That way we can sort the list of reported bugs
> | > by severity and work on the most important bugs first.  But please
> | > don't tag every problem that you would like to see fixed as a blocker,
> | > as that would not be not helpful.  Here are some guidelines to decide
> | > whether a problem should be tagged with blocker or important severity:
> | >
> | >    * the problem is a regression (i.e., the feature worked in a
> | >      previous version of Octave)
> | >
> | >    * the problem causes a crash that can be duplicated on multiple
> | >      systems and is something that is likely to affect many users.
> | >
> | >    * the problem leads to incorrect results, can be duplicated on
> | >      multiple systems, and is likely to affect many users.
> | >
> | > jwe
> | I have just found a regression in the fltk backend. Legend text will not 
> | show up with the current default branch:
> | 
> | octave:1> graphics_toolkit fltk
> | octave:2> plot(0:5,0:5)
> | octave:3> legend('test text')
> | 
> | if this is confirmed and no one else is available for fixing it, I will 
> | do it before the 3.6 release.
> 
> I find that the legend labels are missing for "demo legend" (for
> example) when using "graphics_toolkit fltk".  The following change
> brings them back for me:
> 
> diff --git a/liboctave/oct-alloc.h b/liboctave/oct-alloc.h
> --- a/liboctave/oct-alloc.h
> +++ b/liboctave/oct-alloc.h
> @@ -72,6 +72,10 @@
>       { ::operator delete (p); }
> #endif
> 
> +#ifndef USE_OCTAVE_ALLOCATOR
> +#define USE_OCTAVE_ALLOCATOR 1
> +#endif
> +
> #if defined (USE_OCTAVE_ALLOCATOR)
> 
> #define DECLARE_OCTAVE_ALLOCATOR \
> 
> Why this change has any effect on the legend labels is a complete
> mystery to me.
> 
> jwe


I see no regression on MacOS X.

Ben