Re: 4.0 release goals

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 1, 2012, at 12:59 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> I would like to propose some rather ambitious goals for 4.0, and I
> think we should be bold enough to use a major version number.
> 
> In case you missed it in the help list, there's an interesting thread
> about the GUI. Israel Herraiz forked it and stabilised it:
> 
>    
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/When-will-the-new-GUI-be-ready-tp4645798p4645846.html
> 
> I would like to prioritise getting the GUI stabilised so we can start
> contemplating making a release. I think our 4.0 release goals should
> be:
> 
>    - fltk enabled by default
>    - Stable GUI
>    - JIT compiling working
>    - Windows and Mac OS X binaries
> 
> We're already made many inroads into many of these goals. What do you
> guys think, can we do it?
> 
> - Jordi G. H.

Michael,

Any chance we can merge Qthandles into Octave.

        https://github.com/goffioul/QtHandles

If so, why not enable the Qt toolkit by default?

Ben