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Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arr
From: |
Joao Cardoso |
Subject: |
Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave. |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Jun 2003 01:25:37 +0100 |
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On Thursday 19 June 2003 01:53, Andy Adler wrote:
| On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, John W. Eaton wrote:
| > Related to all this, I've been thinking about a complete overhaul of
| > the way matrix objects are handled in Octave. For example, instead of
| > having many different octave_value types to support various types of
| > matrix objects, we could have one for all matrix-like objects. But
| > this will be a lot more work, and I'm not sure whether it is really
| > feasible at this point. It could break a lot of code. OTOH, if this
| > is something that would improve and simplify the internals of Octave,
| > then it will only break more code if the change is delayed.
|
| John,
|
| I propose that, instead of making any large changes now, that you
| release octave 2.2 or 3.0 as soon as possible. This is important
| because 2.0 is essentially unsupported now, and people are
| reluctant to use an unstable (2.1) version.
And some distributors also. Octave is not available under SuSE since SuSE-8.0;
the problem, I think, is that the stable octave version can't be compiled
with the shipped gcc.
Joao
| The recent releases have been very stable. Adding a few features
| from octave-forge, and releasing a 2.2pre series now would get
| a lot of testers to flush out remaining bugs.
|
| This will allow an overhall of matrix objects to be under less
| time pressure.
|
| Andy
- A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave., Ole Jacob Hagen, 2003/06/18
- A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave., John W. Eaton, 2003/06/18
- Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave., Andy Adler, 2003/06/18
- Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave.,
Joao Cardoso <=
- Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave., John W. Eaton, 2003/06/19
- Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave., Dirk Eddelbuettel, 2003/06/19
- stable/development release ideas (was : Re: A group in Norway...), nick . smethurst, 2003/06/20
- Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave., Joao Cardoso, 2003/06/20
- Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave., Etienne Grossmann, 2003/06/20
- Re: A group in Norway starts to develop support for multidimensional arrays in Octave., Joao Cardoso, 2003/06/20
- Octave 2.2.x Was: A group in Norway ..., Andy Adler, 2003/06/20
- Octave 2.2.x Was: A group in Norway ..., John W. Eaton, 2003/06/20
- Re: Octave 2.2.x Was: A group in Norway ..., Andy Adler, 2003/06/20
- Re: Octave 2.2.x Was: A group in Norway ..., John W. Eaton, 2003/06/20