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Re: 4.0 release goals
From: |
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso |
Subject: |
Re: 4.0 release goals |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Nov 2012 17:16:39 -0400 |
On 1 November 2012 17:04, Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso-2 wrote
>> I would like to propose some rather ambitious goals for 4.0, and I
>> think we should be bold enough to use a major version number.
>>
>> In case you missed it in the help list, there's an interesting thread
>> about the GUI. Israel Herraiz forked it and stabilised it:
>>
>>
>> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/When-will-the-new-GUI-be-ready-tp4645798p4645846.html
>>
>> I would like to prioritise getting the GUI stabilised so we can start
>> contemplating making a release. I think our 4.0 release goals should
>> be:
>>
>> - fltk enabled by default
>> - Stable GUI
>> - JIT compiling working
>> - Windows and Mac OS X binaries
>>
>> We're already made many inroads into many of these goals. What do you
>> guys think, can we do it?
>
> IMO bug #34631 is a showstopper for Windows binaries. Gnuplot is also
> affected.
I disagree. It's not a bug that makes Octave useless for most Windows
users. It's bad, but most users don't regularly put 34 plots at once
on screen. I suggest keeping the discussion about this bug on the bug
report.
> As to the other features, I'd agree they should all be in a 4.0. Perhaps
> they can be integrated stepwise in a 3.8.x version.
I don't think there's much we can split off into a 3.8 version and
there are lots of major features that are coming in all at once,
particularly due to our GSoC students.
> I've seen the Octave on Windows 8 bug reports; but I think that shouldn't
> stop us from releasing 4.0.
No, but we need to have Windows binaries. When we make the big
announcement about 4.0 being released, I want to make sure Windows and
Mac OS X users can easily get Octave and run it. We should not start
blowing the trumpets until the binaries are ready. Especially since I
hope we can sell them freely at a pay-what-you-want scale.
Marketing. ;-)
- Jordi G. H.
- Re: 4.0 release goals, (continued)
- Re: 4.0 release goals, Daniel J Sebald, 2012/11/01
- Re: 4.0 release goals, Israel Herraiz, 2012/11/01
- Re: 4.0 release goals, Richard, 2012/11/03
- Re: 4.0 release goals, Max Brister, 2012/11/03
- Re: 4.0 release goals, Richard Crozier, 2012/11/03
Re: 4.0 release goals, Michael D. Godfrey, 2012/11/01
Re: 4.0 release goals, Ben Abbott, 2012/11/01
Re: 4.0 release goals, Philip Nienhuis, 2012/11/01
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Re: 4.0 release goals, Michael D. Godfrey, 2012/11/01
Re: 4.0 release goals, tom yengst, 2012/11/03
Re: 4.0 release goals, Ben Abbott, 2012/11/04