[Scilab-Dev] Scilab 6.1.0 is available!

[Sylvain Corlay]

Congratulations on the release.

I am the author of the conda package for scilab, and unfortunately, it does
not seem that 6.1.0 can be successfully packaged for conda-forge with the
new requirement for the* <filesystem>* C++17 header, which requires *GCC 8*.

Conda-forge is still based on GCC 7, which is fairly recent, with C++17
enabled by default. Would you consider not using the <filesystem> from the
C++17 standard so that Scilab can be made available to a wider audience?

Another blocker to the packaging of Scilab is the outdated version of java
that is required by the GUI. Is there any plan to support a more recent
version of OpenJDK?

Best,

Sylvain Corlay

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 2:10 PM Clément David <Clement.David at esi-group.com>
wrote:

> Dear Scilab-ers,
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> A brand new Scilab 6.1.0 <https://www.scilab.org/download/6.1.0> is
> released today!
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> This version includes further improvement atop Scilab 6.0 for better
> stability and increased algorithm performance. It also includes a reworked
> display for more compact and meaningful value printing; web tools for HTTP,
> JSON support; better debug support and various algorithm rewrite/extension.
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> This first iteration of the 6.1 branch fixes up to 245 bugs and implements
> missing features from the 6.0.2 version. We would like to give a special
> thanks to Samuel and Stephane who have been very active this year.
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> If you find any critical issue or instability that might need a 6.1.x
> release please alert us <https://bugzilla.scilab.org/>. If you are a
> toolbox maintainer, please rebuild your code, upgrade it when needed and
> publish it to atoms.scilab.org.
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> For the complete list of changes and bugs fixed, please take a look at the
> CHANGES <https://help.scilab.org/CHANGES>  file.
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> Clément on behalf of the Scilab team
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