Online Developer Meeting (2020-07-28)

• Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 @ 18:00 UTC
• Location: https://meet.jit.si/octave-dev-2020-07-28

Todays topics

• Meet and greet 5 minutes before meeting (audio testing).

Octave 6 release status

• We should create a first release candidate (RC) Octave 6.0.90 soon. Base for discussing and working on further bug findings.
  • Update gnulib before RC
  • Tag some cset on stable.
  • Build MS Windows binaries.
  • Upload to https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/octave/ .

• Still hard to fix blocking bugs
  • Bug with graphic handles while closing Octave (bug #58814) was reported. This happens when exit is called from a script or when directly calling exit after running the script in the CLI. How to properly handle graphics callbacks during exit?
  • 32-bit MS Windows builds
    • ode15 with Sundials make problems (bug #58795). Maybe already solved.
    • Precision problems failing the test suite (bug #58807). Solvable by requiring SSE2 instructions. Go ahead with it.
    • Unreported GUI problems. Please report them.

• Are there breaking changes in Octave 6 to inform package maintainers? No, only deprecated functions are now removed.

• Add script to start GDB session from Octave for debugging, see Debugging Octave.

Ideas for next meeting

See also

• Next meeting: TBA
• Last meeting: Online Developer Meeting (2020-07-07)