Re: Any outstanding bugs before rc4?

[John Swensen]

> On Nov 7, 2016, at 9:19 AM, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 11/17/16
> 
> I checked in changes to fix bug #49509 and #49501 this morning.  Does
> anyone know of anything else that must be fixed before the next release
> candidate (rc4) is made?
> 
> --Rik
> 

Definitely not something that will get fixed in the near future, but Octave 4.2 
has been really bad on OSX (Homebrew built). Octave 4.0.3 is quite usable, so 
it isn’t a show stopper but would recommend that 4.2 not be considered a 
“stable release” for OSX. I think most of the the OSX problems already have bug 
reports, but here are the ones that are the most problematic:
1) Doesn’t handle Apple retina displays well. I’m not quite sure why this 
wasn’t an issue with 4.03, but is with 4.2. 
2) I get the GUI hanging about 50% of the time I try and plot things. It 
happens less when I take the plotting commands out of the script/function and 
execute them from the command line.
3) The GUI hangs almost every single time when trying to close Octave. I can 
reduce the likelihood of this happening if I execute a “clear all; close all;” 
before trying to exit, but it isn’t 100%.

I have been trying to get a Homebrew version with debug symbols built so I can 
start looking at (2) and (3), and submitted a first step patch for (1), but 
these three alone make 4.2 virtually unusable on OSX.

John S.