OctConf 2018 Notes
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We will be taking notes as OctConf is going on. Keep an eye on this page.
Monday
Talking
- jwe presented state of Octave development
- Michele Ginesi presented his Octave work on special functions
- list topics for discussion and work for this OctConf
- this very page
- frequency of Octave releases
- a new release from stable this OctConf. A new release from default in 4 weeks time. From now on, new releases every year in January with freeze before the Christmas holidays.
- implementing String class
- Matlab added double quote strings, which instantiate objects of their new String class. This behaves different from our double quote strings because it does not escape special characters. Being Matlab compatible will mean being backwards incompatible. Decided to first implement the String class and make the Octave internals handle it. Then we will worry about having the double quotes create them and decide about the escaping of characters.
- scope of functions in script files
- Matlab scripts can now include function definitions. However, these behave different from Octave scripts in two ways:
- functions defined in script files are locally scoped and will not be available after running the script
- functions in the script file can de defined in the script after the statements that use them while Octave requires them to be defined first.
- jwe says that this behaviour should be simple to implement but will be backwards incompatible. Solution is to have the run function change and behave like Matlab does. Currently, the function source is the same as run. The function source will keep the old behaviour and can be used to source a file to import functions definitions into the global scope, as if the sourced file had been ran in the interpreter.
Doing
- email maintainers mailing list with conclusions
- done by carandraug
Tuesday
Talking
- future GSoC students
- refactoring (threading)
- developer docs
- symbol naming
- liboctave interface stability and usability
- test coverage
- measurements of performance
- Octave Forge community
- packages into Octave core
Doing
- merging of previous GSoC projects
- polygon reconstruction algorithm
- dinner in town
- email maintainers mailing list with conclusions
Wednesday
Talking
- review our review of code contributions
- build system issues
Doing
- new Octave 4.2.2 release
- new release of image package
- more tests to increase code coverage
- CERN visit
- email maintainers mailing list with conclusions
Thursday
Talking
- OctConf 2019
- pending discussions and work
Doing
- email maintainers mailing list with conclusions