Re: 3.2.x

[David Bateman]

Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I couldn't help noticing that the amount of work to port patches from
> development to 3.0.x increased lately (though it may well be a
> coincidence), as the code has diverged in many places. Perhaps it is
> time to fork a fresh stable branch?
> What do you think? Is the world ready for Octave 3.2.x? Is Octave ready?
>
>   
The status report for 3.2 still has a number of points to address before 
a 3.2.x release in particular

  1. Objects:
        - Operator overloading vs. constant folding

  +. Handle block comments.  This is not quite finished as block
     comments inside [] or {}, and also in the group of comments
     following a continuation character, etc., are not handled.  See
     the FIXME comments in lex.l.

11. Graphics:
    Basically I believe we need to use the listeners, etc that were introduced 
to make the newly added code useful. I have been working on this, bug have bugs 
at the moment I can't trace down.


 Other tasks that should be considered before the release:

   * Document the graphics changes made by Shai/Michael as needed. (though I've 
tried to do this a bit)

   * Document the object oriented stuff in a new chapter.

   * Document the use of private directories.

   * Document other functions that were ported from octave-forge (eg
     imread, dlmwrite, etc)

   + Update the NEWS file.

So, there are still a number of things to do, particularly in the documentation. 

Regards
David




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