Re: Freemat Development

[Jacob Dawid]

Samit,

maybe we can find a common interface for the requirements a software for numerical mathematics must have to serve us all. I am not quite sure under which license you distribute freemat in your own products and what the expectations of your user base are, but surely we can agree on working to fulfil all our needs equally. Coding together means to not run two competing products, so in the end work that has been done will result in better software for the user.

We have people doing lots of dedicated work, like testing, answering questions in IRC, doing packaging, caring for nightly builds, bugfixing and translating into various languages. Also, I was not implicitly saying that you have to abandon your project. We already took a look over your code to check if you have implemented some functionality that we still lack, especially a terminal emulation for Windows.

If applicable, I would always opt in to integrate work that has been done already. I invite you to participate on our mailing list

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This way you will reach more people that hopefully can answer you more specific questions.

Best Regards,

Jacob

2011/8/23 Samit Basu <address@hidden>

Hello Jacob,

Your project looks very interesting.  Octave will definitely benefit
from having a user-friendly interface.
I am not exactly sure how we would collaborate, but I am open to
suggestions.  I have a fairly
dedicated user base for FreeMat, and use it daily in my work.  It is
also included in several products
that I have designed, so I cannot readily abandon it. ;)

Regards,
Samit

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Jacob Dawid <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear Mr. Basu,
> I am an octave developer and saw that you are working on a similar program,
> called freemat. A few months ago I begun developing a GUI for octave using
> Qt, which is aimed to be platform-independent (it's currently not running on
> Windows, but on GNU/Linux and MacOSX). I did not start from scratch, instead
> I mixed several projects from different places. Also, I implemented an IRC
> client, incorporated code from Konsole and use QScintilla as a file editor.
> We have translated the UI into spanish, ukrainian, russian, german and
> portuguese already, more to come. I have uploaded a screenshot of the latest
> development version here:
> http://www7.pic-upload.de/23.08.11/nmwr94ved6hn.png
> Since I saw your profile
> ( http://www.ece.illinois.edu/alumni/awards/yaaa/2008-Basu.html ) I am not
> in the position making offers, being a regular student only, but actually we
> are working on similar projects. If you joined us we could all benefit,
> starting with sharing code so we do not duplicate efforts, giving you the
> opportunity to work for a huge user base and us having a true professional
> in our team.
> If you have questions concerning this, feel free to join us in #octave in
> FreeNode or just mail back. I am gladly awaiting your answer!
> Greetings,
> Jacob Dawid
>
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