Online Developer Meeting (2023-04-25): Difference between revisions

Revision as of 12:36, 25 April 2023

@jwe's server is now set up as a buildbot worker for buildbot.octave.space (Windows nightlies)
- Worker needs to be started manually on reboot. Other than that it is working.
- Upload is slow. Maybe, skip (building and) uploading the .zip archive. Installer and .7z archive are probably enough.

Octave 8.1 released
- Does it make sense to make release candidates?
- Release Octave 8.2.0 with a couple of urgent fixes (see below) probably soon.

Fix for issue with element-wise | and & in if conditions is already pushed to the stable branch.

Issues when writing to streams while converting output
- @arungiridhar already pushed a fix for streams in binary mode to the stable branch.
- Change default to "no conversion" (i.e., UTF-8) when opening streams with fopen without explicitly specifying an encoding. Matlab also defaults to UTF-8 in newer versions. And this might mitigate the encoding issue (at least with default settings).

Symbol visibility for Octave libraries causing issues for some Octave packages?
- Change default to disable selective symbol visibility again.

Internal representation of character arrays in Octave
- @jwe proposed to open a thread on Discourse if we'd like to discuss this.

NumFOCUS
- Go ahead with application (without waiting for feedback from FSF any longer).

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 * GSoC discussion
 * Octave 8.2.0 released
-* GUI development (Qt6, terminal widget, ...)
+* Possible version 9 projects:
+** Qt6 (does that force us to require a C++17 compiler?)
+** new terminal widget
+** <tt>arguments</tt> blocks
+** improved breakpoint handling
+** experimental stack-based virtual machine
+** <tt>MException</tt> object
+** <tt>string</tt> object (separate from having double-quoted characters create <tt>string</tt> objects)
+** HDF5-based <tt>save</tt> and <tt>load</tt> compatible with Matlab's file format
+** refactor <tt>octave_function</tt> and classes derived from it
+** broadcasting for <tt>sparse</tt>
+** make graphics and GUI event processing in the interpreter independent from readline
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