Re: TR: [sciclub] Scilab news

[Tomer Altman]

Don't worry, Thomas. With you on board, I'm sure the next version of
Scilab will be better than ever. We salute you!

~Tomer

P.S.- Don't be a stranger. We won't hold your affiliations against
you. ;-)



On Nov 28, 2003 at 12:53pm, THOMAS Paul Richard wrote:

prthom >Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:53:03 +0100
prthom >From: THOMAS Paul Richard <address@hidden>
prthom >To: address@hidden
prthom >Subject: TR: [sciclub] Scilab news
prthom >Resent-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 05:53:53 -0600
prthom >Resent-From: address@hidden
prthom >
prthom >Since I work for one of the organisations in the Scilab Consortium, I 
feel
prthom >"honour bound" to circulate this to you all.  Scilab is going to get 
serious
prthom >support; in particular, the consortium is going to sponsor 5 people to 
work
prthom >on it full-time.  You will be able to read of where Scilab is going - in
prthom >particular, a major release, version 3, is slated for next year.  
Version
prthom >2.7 is already quite serious; in particular for the introduction of 
handle
prthom >graphics, à la Matlab.  The native Windows version is noticably slicker 
than
prthom >that for Unix but they are functionally identical.
prthom >
prthom >One major initiative, that has bought Scilab a lot of support, is its 
use as
prthom >a teaching aid in French high schools.  Aparently, 10s of thousands of
prthom >teenagers have tested it to death!
prthom >
prthom >However, the consortium represents some very serious, large-scale users 
and
prthom >I expect that we will see some rapid development here.
prthom >
prthom >Paul 
prthom >
prthom >-----Message d'origine-----
prthom >De : Serge Steer [mailto:address@hidden
prthom >Envoyé : jeudi 27 novembre 2003 17:14
prthom >À : address@hidden
prthom >Objet : [sciclub] Scilab news
prthom >
prthom >
prthom >
prthom >Please find below news about the Scilab developpment.
prthom >
prthom >1/ Consortium:
prthom >An international consortium have been created in May 2003 to boost the
prthom >developpment of the free software Scilab.
prthom >See: http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/consortium/consortium.html. 
prthom >
prthom >
prthom >2/ Scilab Tracking System: 
prthom >Scilab development team proposes the Scilab tracking system, a tool to
prthom >share and take advantage of the experiment of the Scilab community
prthom >(developers and users). Scilab tracking system is a bugzilla-based
prthom >system, it is a centralized web-database tracking system for Scilab bugs
prthom >and Scilab requests. In order to help us to progress, we encourage you
prthom >to use now Scilab tracking system.
prthom >See: <http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/cgi-bin/bugzilla_bug/index.cgi> .
prthom >
prthom >
prthom >3/ Contributed Toolbox: A new Open-Source Finite Element Toolbox
prthom >(OpenFEM) (from MACS INRIA project and SDTools) is available. some
prthom >others have been recently updated (HMM, COSMAD, RLTOOL PREST_BOX)
prthom >See: http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/contributions.html
prthom >
prthom >
prthom >4/ Scilab release 3.0
prthom >Scilab release 3.0 will be available to middle of  2004. This new
prthom >version will include:
prthom > - the handling of graphics objects 2D and 3D
prthom > - a new version of "m2sci" functions (mfile2sci() and others.)
prthom > - an optimized windows version
prthom > - a more convenient editor Scipad
prthom > - Many Scicos improvements (GUI + Implicit systems)
prthom > - more efficient hypermatrix
prthom > - some fixed bugs
prthom >
prthom >
prthom >Regards
prthom >



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