Online Developer Meeting (2021-06-22)

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Todays topics

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

Octave 6.3.0

  • OctConf?
    • Instead of an in-person conference, meet up virtually.
    • Ideas for code-sprint?
      • Improve test coverage
      • That could include automated tests for GUI features ("expect", Qt test classes, set OCTAVE_SHOW_GUI_MESSAGES to 1 to display signals with missing connections, ...). Does anyone have experience with this?
  • GUI
    • Make widgets more modular
      • remove connections to parents (or parents of parents,...)
      • Only pass settings objects (instead of base qwidget) to widgets?
    • Add widgets for:
      • displaying call stack. Select function in stack for appropriate dbup or dbdown command.
      • displaying result to an expression. Similar to debugger (watcher, ...)
    • User expectations for evaluation code from the editor ("Evaluate selection") or the variable editor ("plot") while there is still pending input on the command line?
  • Breakpoints
    • Add feature to temporarily disable breakpoints
    • Check syntax for breakpoints in subfunctions, local functions, private functions, methods, ... (dbstatus)
  • gsd
    • Current version is not Matlab-compatible nor correct in some circumstances.
    • Rik is currently implementing a replacement.
  • IRC channel on Freenode is down
    • Replacement on libera?
    • jwe will probably post something on discourse.

Previous topics

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Discourse

  • General question about the acceptance.
    • We like it.
  • Continue to no longer actively advertise the mailing-lists.

GitHub Actions

QScintilla signal/slot problem

  • Bug #60469
  • On MS Windows only for QScintilla the "safer" signal/slot changes seem to not work.
    • Revert it until the problem is identified.

Ideas for next meeting

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