From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Dec 13 15:14:18 2000 Subject: Re: some thoughts about the future of Octave From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o?= Cardoso To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 21:12:03 +0000 Kai Habel wrote: > > Paul Kienzle wrote: ... > I plan to use the sparse > package from Andy Adler in the near future. John Eaton has asked, on an earlier post, comments on the development model to follow in "the future of Octave". John Eaton has always been concerned with both the code "quality" and the code correcteness. In my opinion, this approach has keep away from Octave many potential developers. I think that the Octave "to be" development model must address this question very carefully. Additions such as Andy Adler sparse package should be incorporated in development branches of Octave; other user contributions, such as new data types (I remember the bit datatype) should also be incorporated; with cvs this is quite easy to do, and will encourage users to dig Octave internals and make usefull contributions. The question is if the contributions should go to the cvs main branch, allowing others to easily experiment the new code, or as a specific branch, where only interested users (the developper!) would try it. I know that both new data types and dll functions can be keept separated from Octave code, but this will not encourage users to contribute -- and Octave sourceforge repository is definitivelly a flop. Well, enough 2c for now Joao PS- should't we make separate discussion threads? I propose "New Octave model development" "New Octave GUI" "New Octave graphics" "New Octave and MATLAB" as those seems to be the major points of discussion. -- Joćo Cardoso, jcard at fe dot up dot pt Gab. I-314, tel. 1888 ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------