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** broadcasting for <tt>sparse</tt>
** broadcasting for <tt>sparse</tt>
** make graphics and GUI event processing in the interpreter independent from readline
** make graphics and GUI event processing in the interpreter independent from readline
* Status of Octave Forge
** should the Octave bug tracker continue to be used for reporting bugs in external packages?
** if not, how can we make it easy to find the location to report bugs for a package/package function?  How do other systems like Python, R, etc., handle this problem?


== Previous topics ==
== Previous topics ==

Revision as of 13:36, 25 April 2023

Today's topics

  • GSoC discussion
  • Octave 8.2.0 released
  • Possible version 9 projects:
    • Qt6 (does that force us to require a C++17 compiler?)
    • new terminal widget
    • arguments blocks
    • improved breakpoint handling
    • experimental stack-based virtual machine
    • MException object
    • string object (separate from having double-quoted characters create string objects)
    • HDF5-based save and load compatible with Matlab's file format
    • refactor octave_function and classes derived from it
    • broadcasting for sparse
    • make graphics and GUI event processing in the interpreter independent from readline
  • Status of Octave Forge
    • should the Octave bug tracker continue to be used for reporting bugs in external packages?
    • if not, how can we make it easy to find the location to report bugs for a package/package function? How do other systems like Python, R, etc., handle this problem?

Previous topics

  • @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.
  • GSoC 2023
    • Application period will start soon.
  • NumFOCUS
    • Go ahead with application (without waiting for feedback from FSF any longer).

See also