[Scilab-Dev] Scilab 6.0.1 is out

[Clément David]

Le jeudi 15 février 2018 à 17:17 +0100, Stéphane Mottelet a écrit :
> Le 15/02/2018 à 16:30, Clément David a écrit :
> > Dear Scilab developers,
> > 
> > Thanks to our collective work including your work, we released Scilab 6.0.1! This is a revision
> > of
> > 6.0.0 including bug fixes and avoiding some regression. It is supposed to be fully compatible
> > with
> > 6.0.0 but please report bugs if this is not the case.
> > 
> > If user feedbacks are good and reported bugs have low criticality, we will focus on 6.1.0 for
> > the
> > next months; please update your git branches before pushing new commits! For the upcoming
> > features,
> > we took a look at your inputs on the Scilab 6.0.0 ML thread and wish to implement some of them.
> > Help
> > us build them and have a great 6.1.0 version by coding your own functionalities! If you have
> > trouble
> > setting up your dev. environment or need help understanding the code, ask us.
> > 
> > For the next releases, we also wish to drastically change the macOS binary to be more Apple
> > compatible (Binary signature, clean Java embedding, etc...) however we need support from the
> > community. Are you interested in helping us ? providing knowledge, patches and testing binaries?
> > 
> > For the complete list of changes and bugs fixed, please take a look at the
> > [CHANGES](https://help.scilab.org/CHANGES) file.
> > 
> > Thanks for your involvement,
> > 
> > --
> > Clément
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> Hello Clément,
> 
> Under High Sierra Scilab windows are flashing when they are resized, 
> this is awfull ! Downgrading
> 
> libnativewindow_macosx.jnilib
> libnativewindow_awt.jnilib
> 
> at the state they were for Scilab 5.5.1 solves the problem (see my 
> 2018-02-14 update at http://www.utc.fr/~mottelet/Darwin/). Maybe there 
> exists a less "experimental" way of solving the problem, but doing this 
> works like a charm !

Hello Stéphane,

Thanks for the information, libjogl2 might also need to be upgraded (rather than downgraded) on the
master branch [1] to fix a lot of bugs and issues. Maybe providing binaries built on High Sierra
might improve the situation.

[1]: https://codereview.scilab.org/#/c/17530/

--
Clément