Re: moving toward a 3.0 release

[Bill Denney]

David Bateman wrote:
> God please don't point the finger at me.... What I'd like is some
> feedback from Bill and Shai on what they think is needed, set a feature
> freeze date for octave 3.0 but not at 2.9.9, call 2.9.9 a testing
> release and the first release after the feature freeze call it 3.0rc1.
> If graphics handles are ready at the feature freeze then accept them,
> otherwise go for a release without them.
>
> The only question in the above is when is the feature freeze. Can we
> just wait for feedback from Bill and Shai before fixing that date?
>   
OK, so I've been completely swamped with other work recently.  I have 
written many m-files, but I've not had time to dedicate to making a 
graphics front end.  That said, the code that I posed back in May was an 
excellent skeleton, it just needed many external features implemented 
(i.e. I think it had lines, patches, axes, figures and other stuff-- 
like I said I've not looked at it in a while).

One of the major difficulties I had is that I don't know gnuplot well, 
and I therefore had difficulty trying to make gnuplot work with the 
frontend.  Without a good backend, it's tough to test the frontend.  The 
other problem is that with the speed of the interpreter, it takes ~30 
second to create first figure.

Bill