Re: moving toward a 3.0 release

[Andy Adler]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, David Bateman wrote:
> I see this as a pity as I feel there are two things needed for wide
> acceptance of octave; these being a good windows installer (ie an exe
> and one that doesn't suffer from the cygwin sjlj exception issue), and
> graphic handles. I'd like to eventually see classes but think that can wait.

> From the point of view of a windows build, releasing 3.0 would be a
good thing. Many people are waiting before trying 2.9.x on windows.

Currnetly, the 2.9.x series is very tricky to build. It has lots more
dependencies esp for sparse, and - in my experience - is more demanding
of the compiler.

Once 3.0 comes out, I predict we'll see lots more people trying
(and failing) to build/use 3.0. But this is exactly what is supposed
to happen with dot zero releases ...


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Andy Adler