Re: 4.0 vs 3.8 again

[Doug Stewart]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 17:58 +0100, c. wrote:
> On 19 Nov 2013, at 17:11, c. <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > the main reason is that, although the GUI is a huge difference it is
> > still terribly buggy, at least on OSX where I am testing, I'd prefer
> > a new major release to be more stable.
>
> BTW, although I'm mostly looking at the GUI because, as you say,
> that is a HUGE new feature, problems on OSX 10.9 are not only there,
> I still see ~15 test failures in 'make check'.

We should consider these blocker bugs.

If we can't make this release with the GUI working on Mac OS X and
Windows, then we shouldn't make it at all. The GUI should be our major
release goal.

I'm doing a Octave builds on Mac OS X.VIII and X.V, and I'll start
attacking these bugs.

- Jordi G. H.

In my opinion Octave 4 has to be stable in windows and mack before we have the BIG release.

 I would like to see a release candidate out soon, because even on Ubuntu 12.04 I can't get a compile that works correctly. ( can't open an old .m file with the GUI)

 

Doug

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