Re: Octave 3.0

[Per Persson]

On Saturday, February 22, 2003, at 02:47 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> I'd like to try to come up with a list of must-have items for the next
> major release of Octave, then we can start making sure that all those
> items are done (not necessarily complete, but at least implemented
> well enough to be usable).

[snip]

> Yes, this is a relatively large list, but I think it is possible to do
> most of these things in the next six months or so.

I'm a bit reluctant to speak up on this since what I am about to say is 
i) not strictly a must-have ii) probably not doable in the above 
timeframe iii) I'm completely tied down for the next 5-6 months so I 
can't participate, but here goes:

I'd really like to see some kind of plotting API/abstract 
class/interface whatever that sits between octave and any present 
and/or future plotting solution.
I know this has been dicussed before, but mostly in the context of GUIs 
and stuff. Certainly, it would be nice to have a similar solution for 
all kinds of fancy widgets but the plotting part could probably be done 
separately from buttons and sliders etc.

Just my 0.02 euro

/Per