Re: Suggesting ideas for Octave

[Rafid Khalid]

Thanks Jordi for your reply. I am actually interested in contributing to Octave but I am still not sure whether I have time for that or not, because I have a full time job, so I would like to know more about this, like the range of number of hours per week contributors usually spend on projects, and other stuff.

Just a question here on the symbolic computing project, why was GiNaC for the new package? I noticed that it wasn't maintained since 2011!

On 25 May 2014 19:48, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:

On Sun, 2014-05-25 at 10:31 +0100, Rafid Khalid wrote:
> I would like to ask about or suggest the following ideas for Octave
> which don't seem to be available judging from the list of

> projects<http://wiki.octave.org/Projects>

Nice. Are you planning to work on this?

> - Symbolic computing:

http://wiki.octave.org/Summer_of_Code_Project_Ideas#Rewrite_symbolic_package

> - Android/iOS application:

These are two separate issues. For Android, we have

    http://wiki.octave.org/Android

For iOS, we need a distribution mechanism that does not depend on the
app store, which is GPLv3-incompatible. Locked-down devices that do
not respect user freedoms do not allow GPLv3 programs.

- Jordi G. H.