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The list below summarizes features or bug fixes we would like to see in Octave. | The list below summarizes features or bug fixes we would like to see in Octave. if you start working steadily on a project, please let octave-maintainers@octave.org know. We might have information that could help you. You should also read the [[Contribution guidelines |Contributing Guidelines]]. | ||
This list is not exclusive -- there are many other things that might be good projects, but it might instead be something we already have. Also, some of the following items may not actually be considered good ideas now. So please check with octave-maintainers@octave.org before you start working on some large project. | |||
Summer of Code students, please also see [[SoC Project Ideas]]. | |||
If you're looking for small project, something more suited to start getting involved with Octave development or to fill a boring evening, see [[short projects]] | |||
=Numerical= | =Numerical= | ||
*Improve logm, and sqrtm (see this thread: http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/matrix-functions-td3137935.html) | *Improve logm, and sqrtm (see this thread: http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/matrix-functions-td3137935.html) | ||
*Improve complex mapper functions. See W. Kahan, ``Branch Cuts for Complex Elementary Functions, or Much Ado About Nothing's Sign Bit (in The State of the Art in Numerical Analysis, eds. Iserles and Powell, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987) for explicit trigonometric formulae. | |||
*Improve complex mapper functions. See W. Kahan, ``Branch Cuts for Complex Elementary Functions, or Much Ado About Nothing's Sign Bit (in The State of the Art in Numerical Analysis, eds. Iserles and Powell, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987) for explicit trigonometric formulae | |||
*Make functions like gamma() return the right IEEE Inf or NaN values for extreme args or other undefined cases. | *Make functions like gamma() return the right IEEE Inf or NaN values for extreme args or other undefined cases. | ||
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*Improve design of ODE, DAE, classes. | *Improve design of ODE, DAE, classes. | ||
*Make QR more memory efficient for large matrices when not all the columns of Q are required (apparently this is not handled by the lapack code yet). | |||
*Evaluate harmonics and cross-correlations of unevenly sampled and nonstationary time series, as in http://www.jstatsoft.org/v11/i02 (which has C code with interface to R). (This is now partly implemented in the [http://octave.sourceforge.net/lssa/index.html lssa] package.) | *Evaluate harmonics and cross-correlations of unevenly sampled and nonstationary time series, as in http://www.jstatsoft.org/v11/i02 (which has C code with interface to R). (This is now partly implemented in the [http://octave.sourceforge.net/lssa/index.html lssa] package.) | ||
== General purpose Finite Element library == | |||
Octave-Forge already has a set of packages for discretizing Partial Differential operators by Finite Elements and/or Finite Volumes, | Octave-Forge already has a set of packages for discretizing Partial Differential operators by Finite Elements and/or Finite Volumes, | ||
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* create new functions specifically suited for Octave | * create new functions specifically suited for Octave | ||
* improve the efficiency of the code | * improve the efficiency of the code | ||
The main goal for the fem-fenics package is ultimately to be merged with the FEnics project itself, so that it can remain in-sync with the main library development. | The main goal for the fem-fenics package is ultimately to be merged with the FEnics project itself, so that it can remain in-sync with the main library development. | ||
== Implement solver for initial-boundary value problems for parabolic-elliptic PDEs in 1D == | == Implement solver for initial-boundary value problems for parabolic-elliptic PDEs in 1D == | ||
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Details on the methods to be implemented can be found in [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/502800.502801 this paper] on bvp4c and [http://www.jnaiam.net/new/uploads/files/014dde86eef73328e7ab674d1a32aa9c.pdf this paper] on bvp5c. Further details are available in [http://books.google.it/books/about/Nonlinear_two_point_boundary_value_probl.html?id=s_pQAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y this book]. | Details on the methods to be implemented can be found in [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/502800.502801 this paper] on bvp4c and [http://www.jnaiam.net/new/uploads/files/014dde86eef73328e7ab674d1a32aa9c.pdf this paper] on bvp5c. Further details are available in [http://books.google.it/books/about/Nonlinear_two_point_boundary_value_probl.html?id=s_pQAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y this book]. | ||
== Geometric integrators for Hamiltonian Systems == | |||
[http://openlibrary.org/books/OL9056139M/Geometric_Numerical_Integration Geometric (AKA Symplectic) integrators] are useful for | [http://openlibrary.org/books/OL9056139M/Geometric_Numerical_Integration Geometric (AKA Symplectic) integrators] are useful for | ||
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* SHAKE, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_algorithm here] or [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(77)90098-5 here] | * SHAKE, see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_algorithm here] or [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(77)90098-5 here] | ||
* RATTLE, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(83)90014-1 here] or [http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcc.540161003 here] | * RATTLE, see [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(83)90014-1 here] or [http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcc.540161003 here] | ||
== Matlab-compatible ODE solvers in core-Octave == | == Matlab-compatible ODE solvers in core-Octave == | ||
* | * <strike> Adapt "odeset" and "odeget" from the odepkg package so that the list of supported options is more Matlab-compatible, in the sense that all option names that are supported by Matlab should be available. On the other hand, Matlab returns an error if an option which is not in the list of known options is passed to "odeset", but we would rather make this a warning in order to allow for special extensions, for example for symplectic integrators. </strike> | ||
* <strike> Adapt the interface of "ode45" in odepkg to be completely Matlab compatible, fix its code and documentation style and move it to Octave-core. </strike> | |||
* | * <strike> Build Matlab compatible versions of "ode15s" and "ode15i". jwe has prototype implementations [https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?8102 here] of these built as wrappers to "dassl" and "daspk". An initial approach could be to just improve these wrappers, but eventually it would be better to have wrappers for "IDA" from the sundials library. </strike> | ||
* Implement Matlab compatible versions of "deval". | * Implement Matlab compatible versions of "deval". | ||
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The architecture consists of an Octave class interface implementing "mp" (multi-precision) objects. Arithmetic operations are forwarded to MPL using MEX files. This is totally transparent to the end user, except when displaying numbers. This implementation needs to be ported and tested under Octave. | The architecture consists of an Octave class interface implementing "mp" (multi-precision) objects. Arithmetic operations are forwarded to MPL using MEX files. This is totally transparent to the end user, except when displaying numbers. This implementation needs to be ported and tested under Octave. | ||
=GUI/IDE= | =GUI/IDE= | ||
:''See also: [[Summer of Code Project Ideas#GUI]]'' | |||
*Søren Hauberg has suggested that we need C++ code that can: | *Søren Hauberg has suggested that we need C++ code that can: | ||
**Determine if a line of code could be fully parsed, i.e. it would return true for "plot (x, y);", but false for "while (true)". | **Determine if a line of code could be fully parsed, i.e. it would return true for "plot (x, y);", but false for "while (true)". | ||
**Evaluate a line of code and return the output as a string (it would be best if it could provide three strings: output, warnings and errors). | **Evaluate a line of code and return the output as a string (it would be best if it could provide three strings: output, warnings and errors). | ||
**Query defined variables, i.e. get a list of currently defined variables. Bonus points if it could tell you if anything had changed since the last time you checked the variables (could also be done with signals). | **Query defined variables, i.e. get a list of currently defined variables. Bonus points if it could tell you if anything had changed since the last time you checked the variables (could also be done with signals). | ||
* | * Create a better (G)UI for the {{manual|profile|profiler}}. This may be done with Qt, but not necessarily. | ||
== Sisotool. Create a graphical design tool for tuning closed loop control system ([[Control package]])== | == Sisotool. Create a graphical design tool for tuning closed loop control system ([[Control package]])== | ||
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The paper by [http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.MS/0604006 Bateman & Adler] is good reading for understanding the sparse matrix implementation. | The paper by [http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.MS/0604006 Bateman & Adler] is good reading for understanding the sparse matrix implementation. | ||
*Improve QR factorization functions, using idea based on CSPARSE cs_dmsol.m | |||
*Improve QR factorization by replacing CXSPARSE code with SPQR code, and make the linear solve return 2-norm solutions for ill-conditioned matrices based on this new code | |||
*Improve Matlab compatibility for {{manual|sprandsym}}. | *Improve Matlab compatibility for {{manual|sprandsym}}. | ||
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**minres | **minres | ||
**symmlq | **symmlq | ||
=Strings= | =Strings= | ||
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* write {{codeline|xmlread}} and {{codeline|xmlwrite}}. This could be done using [http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/ Xerces C++ interface] which apparently is what [http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/xml-in-octave-td4663034.html Matlab uses]. | * write {{codeline|xmlread}} and {{codeline|xmlwrite}}. This could be done using [http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/ Xerces C++ interface] which apparently is what [http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/xml-in-octave-td4663034.html Matlab uses]. | ||
* Implement hdf5 for .mat files (see [http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Reading-Matlab-td4650158.html this thread]) | * Implement hdf5 for .mat files (see [http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Reading-Matlab-td4650158.html this thread]). | ||
=Interpreter= | =Interpreter= | ||
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*Use nanosleep instead of usleep if it is available? Apparently nanosleep is to be preferred over usleep on Solaris systems. | *Use nanosleep instead of usleep if it is available? Apparently nanosleep is to be preferred over usleep on Solaris systems. | ||
*<strike>Per the following discussion, allow bsxfun style singleton dimension expansion as the default behavior for the builtin element-wise operators: http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Vector-approach-to-row-margin-frequencies-tp1636361p1636367.html</strike> This is done. <strike>Now [[User:JordiGH|I]] just have to document it.</strike> This is done too! | |||
== Improve JIT compiling == | == Improve JIT compiling == | ||
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* Implement one-to-many (Broadcast, Scatter), many-to-one (Reduce, Gather), and many-to-many (All Reduce, Allgather) communication routines | * Implement one-to-many (Broadcast, Scatter), many-to-one (Reduce, Gather), and many-to-many (All Reduce, Allgather) communication routines | ||
= Graphics = | =Graphics= | ||
*Correctly handle case where DISPLAY is unset. Provide --no-window-system or --nodisplay (?) option. Provide --display=DISPLAY option? How will this work with gnuplot (i.e., how do we know whether gnuplot requires an X display to display graphics)? | |||
* | * Implement transparency and lighting in OpenGL backend(s). A basic implementation was available in [http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/extra/jhandles/ JHandles]. This needs to be ported/re-implement/re-engineered/optimized in the C++ OpenGL renderer of octave. | ||
* Implement a Cairo-based renderer for 2D-only graphics, with support for PS/PDF/SVG output (for printing). | * Implement a Cairo-based renderer for 2D-only graphics, with support for PS/PDF/SVG output (for printing). | ||
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* On 'imagesc' plots, report the matrix values also based on the mouse position, updating on mouse moving. | * On 'imagesc' plots, report the matrix values also based on the mouse position, updating on mouse moving. | ||
* Add map-creating capabilities similar to the Matlab [ | * Add map-creating capabilities similar to the Matlab [http://www.mathworks.com/help/map/functionlist.html Mapping toolbox] for inclusion in the Octave Forge [https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/mapping mapping package]. | ||
* Add data cursor to trace data values in figure. | * Add data cursor to trace data values in figure. | ||
== Lighting == | |||
Implement transparency and lighting in OpenGL backend(s). A basic implementation is available in [http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/extra/jhandles/ JHandles]. This needs to be ported/re-implement/re-engineered/optimized in the C++ OpenGL renderer of Octave. | |||
== Object selection in OpenGL renderer == | |||
This project is about the implementation of a selection method of graphics elements within the OpenGL renderer [http://glprogramming.com/red/chapter13.html] | |||
== Non-OpenGL renderer == | == Non-OpenGL renderer == | ||
Besides the original gnuplot backend, Octave also contains an OpenGL-based renderer for advanced and more powerful 3D plots. However, OpenGL is not perfectly suited for 2D-only plots where other methods could result in better graphics. The purpose of this project is to implement an alternate graphics renderer for 2D only plots (although 3D is definitely not the focus, extending the new graphics renderer to support basic 3D features should also be taken into account). There is no particular toolkit/library that must be used, but natural candidates are: | Besides the original gnuplot backend, Octave also contains an OpenGL-based renderer for advanced and more powerful 3D plots. However, OpenGL is not perfectly suited for 2D-only plots where other methods could result in better graphics. The purpose of this project is to implement an alternate graphics renderer for 2D only plots (although 3D is definitely not the focus, extending the new graphics renderer to support basic 3D features should also be taken into account). There is no particular toolkit/library that must be used, but natural candidates are: | ||
* [http://qt.nokia.com Qt]: the GUI is currently written in Qt | * [http://qt.nokia.com Qt]: the GUI is currently written in Qt and work is also in progress to provide a Qt/OpenGL based backend [https://github.com/goffioul/QtHandles] | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_%28software%29 Cairo]: this library is widely used and known to provides high-quality graphics with support for PS/PDF/SVG output. | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_%28software%29 Cairo]: this library is widely used and known to provides high-quality graphics with support for PS/PDF/SVG output. | ||
== LaTeX markup == | == TeX/LaTeX markup == | ||
Text objects in plots (like titles, labels, texts...) in the OpenGL renderer only support plain text mode without any formatting possibility. Support for TeX and/or LaTeX formatting needs to be added. | |||
* The TeX formatting support actually only consists of a very limited subset of the TeX language. This can be implemented directly in C++ into Octave by extending the existing text engine, avoiding to add a dependency on a full TeX system. Essentially, support for Greek letters, super/sub-scripts, and several mathematical symbols needs to be supported. For example, | |||
:<pre>\alpha \approx \beta_0 + \gamma^\chi</pre> | |||
:Would be rendered as, | |||
:α ≈ β<sub>0</sub> + γ<sup>χ</sup> | |||
:This is analogous to how special characters may be included in a wiki using html. | |||
:<pre>&alpha; &asymp; &beta;<sub>0</sub> + &gamma;<sup>&chi;</sup></pre> | |||
:The text object's {{Codeline|extent}} for the rendered result needs to be calculated and the text placed the location specified by the text object's {{Codeline|position}} property. An itemized list of a text objects properties can be found [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Text-Properties.html here]. | |||
* On the other hand, the LaTeX formatting support is expected to provide full LaTeX capabilities. This will require to use an external LaTeX system to produce text graphics in some format (to be specified) that is then integrated into Octave plots. | |||
:The matplotlib project [http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/usetex.html has already done this in Python] and might be used as an example of how to do this in Octave. Mediawiki has also also done [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Texvc something similar]. There is also [http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/jlatexmath/ JLaTeXMath], a Java API to display LaTeX code in mathematical mode. | |||
=History= | =History= | ||
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*Fix history problems — core dump if multiple processes are writing to the same history file? | *Fix history problems — core dump if multiple processes are writing to the same history file? | ||
= Configuration and Installation = | =Configuration and Installation= | ||
*Makefile changes: | |||
**eliminate for loops | |||
**define shell commands or eliminate them | |||
**consolidate targets | |||
* | *Create a docs-only distribution? | ||
* | *<strike> Convert build system to a non-recursive Automake setup. See how Makefile.am files currently include module.mk files in subdirectories, extend this concept to the entire project so there is only one top-level Makefile.am. </strike> Done, except for special dir libgnu which is the only SUBDIRS listed in configure.ac. | ||
=Documentation= | =Documentation and On-Line Help= | ||
*Improve the Texinfo Documentation for the interpreter. It would be useful to have lots more examples, to not have so many forward references, and to not have very many simple lists of functions. | |||
*[[Doxygen]] documentation for the C++ classes. | |||
*Make index entries more consistent to improve behavior of <code>help -i</code>. | |||
*Make <code>help -i</code> try to find a whole word match first. | |||
*Add more demo files. | |||
*Flesh out this wiki | |||
=Tests= | =Tests= | ||
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**Tests for various functions. Would be nice to have a test file corresponding to every function (see below) | **Tests for various functions. Would be nice to have a test file corresponding to every function (see below) | ||
**Tests for element by element operators: + - .* ./ .\ .^ | & < <= == >= > != ! | **Tests for element by element operators: + - .* ./ .\ .^ | & < <= == >= > != ! | ||
**Tests for boolean operators: && || | **Tests for boolean operators: && || | ||
**Tests for other operators: * / \ ' .' | **Tests for other operators: * / \ ' .' | ||
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* Implement a coverage tool for collecting coverage data and generating code coverage reports on m-file functions and scripts. This would be very useful for Octave development as well as for users who want a code coverage report for their own functions and scripts. | * Implement a coverage tool for collecting coverage data and generating code coverage reports on m-file functions and scripts. This would be very useful for Octave development as well as for users who want a code coverage report for their own functions and scripts. | ||
We are far from even having one test for every function, so focus should be on getting the breadth of coverage first before trying to get the depth of 100% statement coverage. As of Dec 2015, 202 of 1020 m-files have no tests. Some of these will be plotting functions which have demos instead, but that leaves enough functions to be an interesting project. As of Dec 2015, there are 485 instances of C++ functions which need tests. | We are far from even having one test for every function, so focus should be on getting the breadth of coverage first before trying to get the depth of 100% statement coverage. As of Dec 2015, 202 of 1020 m-files have no tests. Some of these will be plotting functions which have demos instead, but that leaves enough functions to be an interesting project. As of Dec 2015, there are 485 instances of C++ functions which need tests. | ||
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=Programming= | =Programming= | ||
*<strike> Add support for listeners (addlistener, dellistener, etc) on the C++ side. </strike> | |||
*<strike> C++ namespace for Octave library functions. </strike> | |||
*Better error messages for missing operators? | *Better error messages for missing operators? | ||
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*Use non-empty identifiers in all warnings and errors issued by Octave, see [[Easy projects#Miscellaneous]]. | *Use non-empty identifiers in all warnings and errors issued by Octave, see [[Easy projects#Miscellaneous]]. | ||
*Reduce the amount of datatypes in liboctave | *Reduce the amount of datatypes in liboctave [[Project liboctave 4.2]] | ||
=Miscellaneous= | =Miscellaneous= | ||
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=Marketing and Community= | =Marketing and Community= | ||
* Make the Octave | *Make the website prettier. Maybe a new design, maybe a more "corporate" design (if we're heading down the "paid support for Octave" path. | ||
* | ** FusionForge's "Submit a Snippet" and "Create A Package" would seem to be directly usable for Agora's "Post a Snippet" and "Share your Code", respectively: https://alioth.debian.org/snippet/. It is FLOSS. | ||
** ScipyCentral, http://scipy-central.org/ has all the features we need and is also free software. | |||
* | *Move [https://octave.sourceforge.io/ Octave-Forge] to [https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/octave/ Savannah] so everything is hosted in the same place. | ||
* | *For ideas, see the [http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-marketing.html Apache Open Office Introduction to Marketing] | ||
* Help prepare and deliver presentations and [[ | * Help design a user or a developer survey [http://www.openoffice.org/marketing/ooocon2006/presentations/wednesday_c10.pdf] | ||
* Help prepare and deliver presentations about Octave at colleges and universities. | |||
== Finish the Agora website == | |||
In 2009, the Mathworks decided to restrict the terms of use Matlab Central, a place dedicated to Matlab collaboration. The Mathworks forbade copyleft licenses and using the "free" code found in Matlab central on anything other than Mathworks products (e.g. forbidding from using it on Octave, even if the authors of the code wanted to allow this). Thus Octave users have no place to centrally, quickly, and conveniently share Octave code. See the [[FAQ#Why_can.27t_I_use_code_from_File_Exchange_in_Octave.3F_It.27s_released_under_a_BSD_license.21|FAQ]] for more details. | |||
In response to this, a website started to form, [http://agora.octave.org/ Agora Octave]. | |||
This should be relatively easy webdev in Python using [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_%28web_framework%29 Django]. | |||
Things to be considered when working on this: | |||
* [http://octave-forge.blogspot.ie/2012/08/octconf2012-agora-and-pkg.html discussion of Agora during OctConf2012] | |||
* [http://scipy-central.org/ Scipy Central] - a website with the same objective as Agora for Scipy. Their [https://github.com/scipy/SciPyCentral Code] is released under a BSD license. Might be useful to reuse some parts. | |||
Most of the basic functionality of Agora is already in, but there are many ways in which it could be improved, such as implementing comment threads, giving it an email interface, or a ReSTful API which could be used from Octave for package management. See also [[Agora]]. Talk to [[User:JordiGH|Jordi]] | |||
== Improve Windows binary packaging == | == Improve Windows binary packaging == | ||
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'''Skills Required''': Knowledge of GNU build systems, Makefiles, configure files, chasing library dependencies, how to use a compiler. No m-scripting or C++ necessary, beyond understanding [http://david.rothlis.net/c/compilation_model/ the C++ compilation model]. | '''Skills Required''': Knowledge of GNU build systems, Makefiles, configure files, chasing library dependencies, how to use a compiler. No m-scripting or C++ necessary, beyond understanding [http://david.rothlis.net/c/compilation_model/ the C++ compilation model]. | ||
== Improve | == Improve Mac OS X binary packaging == | ||
We would like to be able to easily generate binary packages for | We would like to be able to easily generate binary packages for Mac OS X. Right now, it's difficult and tedious to do so. Most OS X users install Octave using one of the source-based package managers such as Homebrew or MacPorts. Any way to help us build a binary package would be appreciated. Required knowledge is understanding how building binaries in Mac OS X works. Our current approach to building binaries for Windows is to cross-compile from a GNU system using [http://mxe.cc/ MXE], something similar may be possible for OS X ([http://lilypond.org/gub/ GUB]?). | ||
'''Skills Required''': Knowledge of GNU build systems, Makefiles, configure files, chasing library dependencies, how to use a compiler. If you choose to work on GUB, Python will be required. No m-scripting or C++ necessary, beyond understanding [http://david.rothlis.net/c/compilation_model/ the C++ compilation model]. | '''Skills Required''': Knowledge of GNU build systems, Makefiles, configure files, chasing library dependencies, how to use a compiler. If you choose to work on GUB, Python will be required. No m-scripting or C++ necessary, beyond understanding [http://david.rothlis.net/c/compilation_model/ the C++ compilation model]. | ||
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=Performance= | =Performance= | ||
* Having {{Codeline|parfor}} functioning would speed code development and execution now that multicore architectures are widespread. See [http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Parfor-td4630575.html here] and [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24970519/how-to-use-parallel-for-loop-in-octave-or-scilab here]. Existing code from the [[Parallel package | parallel]] and [http://octave.sourceforge.net/mpi/index.html mpi] packages could perhaps be adapted for this. | *A profiler for Octave would be a very useful tool. And now we have one! But it really needs a better interface. | ||
*Having {{Codeline|parfor}} functioning would speed code development and execution now that multicore architectures are widespread. See [http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Parfor-td4630575.html here] and [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24970519/how-to-use-parallel-for-loop-in-octave-or-scilab here]. Existing code from the [[Parallel package | parallel]] and [http://octave.sourceforge.net/mpi/index.html mpi] packages could perhaps be adapted for this. | |||
=Packaging= | |||
* create a system that allows packages to deprecate functions as in core. Possibilities are: | * create a system that allows packages to deprecate functions as in core. Possibilities are: | ||
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** subdirectories with makefiles and top level make command of: cd <subdir> && ${MAKE}... ok as a substitute? | ** subdirectories with makefiles and top level make command of: cd <subdir> && ${MAKE}... ok as a substitute? | ||
* make pkg able to supply extra configure and make flags, useful for distributions, including -j for make (pkg now passes --jobs=N automatically, CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS environment variables are already respected, what's missing?) | * make pkg able to supply extra configure and make flags, useful for distributions, including -j for make (pkg now passes --jobs=N automatically, CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS environment variables are already respected, what's missing?) | ||
=Preferences= | =Preferences= | ||
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** RESOLUTION | ** RESOLUTION | ||
* Searching the m-files for use of {{Codeline|persistent}} should turn up other opportunities to use preferences. | * Searching the m-files for use of {{Codeline|persistent}} should turn up other opportunities to use preferences. | ||
=Bugs= | =Bugs= |