Re: development snapshot

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:05 PM, John W. Eaton<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 29-Jul-2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>
> | what about making a development snapshot soon, perhaps now?
> | Further, src/version.h still shows version 3.1.55 and api-v37. Is it
> | OK if I change it to 3.3.1 and api-v38?
>
> Sorry for not responding to this message earlier.  Is now a good time
> to make a new snapshot?

I think so.

> If there are no objections, I will try to
> start making more regular snapshots again.  Should we start with
> 3.3.1?

I never understood why there was 3.1.50 instead of 3.1.0, but if
there's a good explanation I've missed...

> 3.3.50?  Should we start planning for a new release?  If so,
> what features are most important?
>

As far as I'm concerned, I've implemented most of my ideas, except
finishing fminbnd and some mapper improvements (erfinv, erfcx).
Everything's in NEWS (I see all entries are mine; isn't something
missing here?). A little more cleanup in liboctave is also possible.

I don't know what else is wanted.

New-style class support may be nice, but given the current status, is
it realistic to expect?
(Personally I'm happy, so far at least, with the old-style classes for
my purposes (only encapsulation), so I've got little motivation to
work on that; besides, I think it would be better done by someone who
has access to Matlab).

Concerning the FLTK backend or other plotting projects, I'm completely ignorant.

In any case, I'd appreciate a snapshot soon, perhaps now, despite
features still missing.

regards

-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz