[scilab-Users] SOS: Version with Xcos usable for academic teaching??

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Switching to the ML dev.

Le mardi 22 juin 2010 à 07:10 +0200, Nick Rudnick a écrit :
> Hello Sylvestre,
> 
> the moment seems to come where I have to look into the sources -- do
> you have other clues besides the version of HDF5?
Could you check on the libhdf included in the Scilab binary ?

> Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > > If I have a choice, I would prefer to assist in fixing bugs at the
> > > Linux builds, which still suffer from problems that prohibit usage --
> > > I inspected mostly the 64 bit version, but I expect the 32 bit version
> > > to be equally affected, as the error message seemingly is thrown by
> > > the Java frontend.
> > >     
> > We are currently focusing the development version. That means we are not
> > testing a lot the binary. We will starting doing so in the next few days
> > for the first beta of Scilab 5.3.0. 
> >   
> ;-)) Of course, I would not assist on basis of the binaries... but I
> am not a build system expert and I need binaries to distribute to our
> students, so I would be happy to have the automatic build process
> activated in time after I have done a fix...  That's all.
No worries. I was just explaining why you can find such issues in the
binary.

> > > Once I can forward working binaries for Linux, too, I will be very
> > > satisfied, and could assist the Tk to JGraphX transition -- here I
> > > first would like to improve the branching of connections.
> > >     
> > I am not sure to understand what you are talking about here ?!
> > AFAIK, there is no Tk into Xcos now.
> >   
> Excuse me, this was unclear: I wanted to address the branching, i.e.
> improving the reliability of marking a connection light green right to
> be able to drag a branch. 
You can give it a try ;). This part is done in Java. Don't hesitate to
contact us about that.

Thanks for the interest, 
Sylvestre

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