[Scilab-Dev] Scilab 6.0.0 has been released !

[Eric Dubois]

Thanks for this great achievement and for asking our opinion on Scilab
future.

For me the priority should be to improve execution speed, which lags behind
state of art similar software, in particular since Julia (
http://julialang.org/), which is a valuable competitor for the kind of
applications I develop, has been released.

Almost as important, it should be urgent I think to make readxls work with
Excel versions beyond 2003: yes, you can always save an Excel file created
in recent versions into an Excel 2003 one but a) it is still less
straigthforward than importing directly the original file b) it prevents
automatic treatment, such as importing automatically data from internet
each time they are updated and running automated treatments on them.

Two less important avenues:
- updating the mfile2sci program, which has some shortcomings and which has
not been updated to more recent Matlab releases;
- making toolboxes developped over time by various Scilab developpers work
with Scilab-6.0.0 (for instance Xls link that does insatll properly even
with Scilab 5.5.2).

Best regards

Éric

2017-02-16 9:23 GMT+01:00 Clément David <
clement.david at scilab-enterprises.com>:

> Dear Scilab developers,
>
> Scilab 6.0.0 is now out [1]. Thanks to everyone who helped build this
> brand new version !
>
> We still have bugs and want to start adding features using Scilab 6 brand
> new capabilities. For the
> upcoming 6.0.1 release, we will continue the bug fixes and help
> improvement started on the 6.0
> branch. Do not hesitate to set up the git branch and push your changes !
>
> As a mid-term target, we also planned some work for 6.1.0 and we have some
> idea about our next
> revision. For exemple (incomplete list):
> * help browser improvement (targetting a best indexation and removing
> javahelp dependency)
> * using analysis for execution speedup
> * more demos and help dedicated pages
> * import() like python and javascript
> * graphical improvement (treeview in uicontrols, uicontrol graphic export)
>
> Do you have other ideas, requests for the near future ?
>
>
> [1]: http://www.scilab.org/community/news/scilab6
> [2]: https://wiki.scilab.org/CategorySep
>
> Thanks for your involvement,
>
> –
> Clément
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