From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Nov 28 05:53:59 2003 Subject: TR: [sciclub] Scilab news From: THOMAS Paul Richard To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:53:03 +0100 Since I work for one of the organisations in the Scilab Consortium, I feel "honour bound" to circulate this to you all. Scilab is going to get serious support; in particular, the consortium is going to sponsor 5 people to work on it full-time. You will be able to read of where Scilab is going - in particular, a major release, version 3, is slated for next year. Version 2.7 is already quite serious; in particular for the introduction of handle graphics, à la Matlab. The native Windows version is noticably slicker than that for Unix but they are functionally identical. One major initiative, that has bought Scilab a lot of support, is its use as a teaching aid in French high schools. Aparently, 10s of thousands of teenagers have tested it to death! However, the consortium represents some very serious, large-scale users and I expect that we will see some rapid development here. Paul -----Message d'origine----- De : Serge Steer [mailto:Serge dot Steer at inria dot fr] Envoyé : jeudi 27 novembre 2003 17:14 À : sciclub at inria dot fr Objet : [sciclub] Scilab news Please find below news about the Scilab developpment. 1/ Consortium: An international consortium have been created in May 2003 to boost the developpment of the free software Scilab. See: http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/consortium/consortium.html. 2/ Scilab Tracking System: Scilab development team proposes the Scilab tracking system, a tool to share and take advantage of the experiment of the Scilab community (developers and users). Scilab tracking system is a bugzilla-based system, it is a centralized web-database tracking system for Scilab bugs and Scilab requests. In order to help us to progress, we encourage you to use now Scilab tracking system. See: . 3/ Contributed Toolbox: A new Open-Source Finite Element Toolbox (OpenFEM) (from MACS INRIA project and SDTools) is available. some others have been recently updated (HMM, COSMAD, RLTOOL PREST_BOX) See: http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/contributions.html 4/ Scilab release 3.0 Scilab release 3.0 will be available to middle of 2004. This new version will include: - the handling of graphics objects 2D and 3D - a new version of "m2sci" functions (mfile2sci() and others.) - an optimized windows version - a more convenient editor Scipad - Many Scicos improvements (GUI + Implicit systems) - more efficient hypermatrix - some fixed bugs Regards -- Serge Steer email: scilab at inria dot fr news:comp.soft-sys.math.scilab http://www.scilab.org/scilab fax: (33) 01 39 63 57 86 --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.536 / Virus Database: 331 - Release Date: 03/11/03 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.536 / Virus Database: 331 - Release Date: 03/11/03 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------