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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">We've
made a few changes on the ATOMS website (</span><a
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), in order to provide better support for the 6.0 release,
and to improve the speed and ease of use of ATOMS. The
general idea was to have simple things that work well </span><span
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</span>than more complex things that work sometimes only.
For Toolbox users, there should not be any changes, except
bug fixes and better presentation of information. For
Toolbox </span><span
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the changes are more important, but should be smooth. The
main change is the simplification of the version schema
(numbering, dependencies, and correspondence with Scilab
versions).</span><span
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<h2>Highlight for Toolbox Users</h2>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
ATOMS website performance has been improved<br>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Presentation
of toolbox availability has been improved on the ATOMS
website </span><br>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">(which
toolbox version for which version of Scilab ?)</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">In
particular, it is now possible to filter which toolboxes
are available for a specific version of Scilab, on a
specific platform</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Various
small user interface improvment (showing how many
toolboxes are present in each category; hiding internal
"Test" toolboxes)</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Better
performance of </span>the Atoms functionalities in
Scilab</span> with regards to connectivity to the ATOMS
portal</span></li>
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<h2>Highlight for Toolbox Maintainers</h2>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
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background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Toolbox
maintainers have a new menu "My toolboxes" in order to:</span></font></li>
<ul>
<li> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
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background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create
a toolbox and input all necessary information for
publication</span></font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">List
all toolboxes they have published. This provides a
quick access to administrative tasks for the toolbox.</span></font></li>
</ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">New tooltips
have been added on the website in order to guide
maintainers when publishing a new version of a toolbox.</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Toolbox
maintainers can enable or disable toolbox versions or
binaries as they see fit.</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Toolbox
maintainers can create binaries for multiple versions of
Scilab with the same source version, thus solving the
following <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14426">bug</a>.</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Guidelines
to build a toolbox version that is compatible to both
Scilab 5 and Scilab 6 are available </span><a
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href="https://wiki.scilab.org/GatewaysFromScilab5ToScilab6"
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14.6667px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color:
transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline;
vertical-align: baseline;">here</span></a></font><span
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">All
these modification will allow a faster release cycle for the
toolboxes and we will aim at making the publish process as
automated as possible in the near future.<br>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Some
toolboxes that were available in for versions greater than
5.4 are now only available for scilab 5.4 only because of
errors in the compilation in Scilab 5.5 on our Compilation
Chains or because they require more specific compilation. We
will try and release them, or provide toolbox maitainers
with our build logs for improvements.<br>
All your requirements and feedback are welcome!<br>
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Scilab Team<br>
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Complete change log:</b><br>
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<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Toolbox versions
are now <major>.<minor>.<patch>; the
format is enforced for new versions. Earlier version can
still be
<major>.<minor>.<patch>.<build></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Versions on the
website do not have a "-" anymore with an additional
number; for example, a toolbox that appeared as "8.3.2-1"
now appears as "8.3.2" everywhere</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Ordering of
versions is now working properly</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Screenshot have
been removed, they were not working properly</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">When creating a
toolbox, or a new toolbox version, providing the source is
mandatory</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">When creating a
toolbox, or a new toolbox version, the maintainer must
tell if the toolbox has native code</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adding binaries
is now done on a specific "Manage binaries" page, not when
creating the toolbox</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Ability to
disable a toolbox version (make it invisible) has been
added. We should disable many old toolboxes versions- many
small changes and fixes to the way toolboxes are presented</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Dependencies no
longer have versions nor direction<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Support of
Scilab versions is simply "major.minor", not an expression
anymore; toolboxes that had ">= y.z" are now only
compatible with y.z. Toolboxes that had "~" (compatible
with any version) are now based on release date (based on
based on <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.scilab.org/scilab/history/version">https://www.scilab.org/scilab/history/version</a>
): '5.5' if created before '2015-09-01', '5.4' if created
before '2015-01-01', '5.3' if created before '2011-08-01'</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Each binary file
has a Scilab version attached to it, not for the whole
toolbox version (for FileExchange it is still for the
whole toolbox)</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">DESCRIPTION
files (used for builds, and in Scilab) have a few changes</font></li>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> dependencies
are now always "~ ... any": and the dependency is
guarantied to exist, so no check is needed in Scilab</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> ScilabVersion
is now always "~": no check is need in Scilab</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> PackagingVersion
has been removed</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> HasNativeCode
has been added</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> each file
(source and binaries) has a "...SupportedScilab" field
(with value 5.4, 5.5 or 6.0)</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">so all the
code that handles dependency versions, and packaging
versions, can be removed in Scilab.</font></li>
</ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Search is now
usable in FileExchange (was so slow it was unusable
before)</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">On Fileexchange,
groups of files are now called "file sets"</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Added some
administration view, in particular "My toolboxes"</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">On the home
page, it is now possible to filter toolboxes available on
a specific platform, and/or for a specific Scilab version</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Category lists
don't show categories that are empty anymore; and show how
many toolboxes they contain</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Internal Scilab
testing toolboxes don't appear anymore on the website, and
in Scilab</font></li>
</ul>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Known issues:</b><br>
</font>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">History may not
work very well</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Email
notifications have not yet been improved</font></li>
</ul>
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