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

[ray joseph]

Nick,

I found a similar problem on a new installation on a Windows 2000 machine.
I found that many things did not work ... right away.  After a few minutes,
features began to work.

Ray

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Rudnick" <joerg.rudnick at t-online.de>
To: <users at lists.scilab.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 2:20 PM
Subject: [scilab-Users] SOS: Version with Xcos usable for academic
teaching??


> Dear all,
>
>
> some days ago I posted an -- unfortunately unanswered -- request for
> access to a version of 5.2.2 usable for academic teaching.
>
> We tried out the »official« release and, unfortunately, where unable to
> save Xcos models with sum blocks -- on five different systems, including
> several Windowses and Linux.
>
> The bug seems to be identical to one reported very recently (Thomas
> Yamaguchi, 2010-6-7 22:28) about the same problem with prod blocks -- 
> which reportedly was solved at the then-actual nightly build.
>
> Unfortunately, the nightly build *I downloaded* did not even allow
> dragging blocks out of the palette browser.
>
> My question: Can anybody give a comment right to
>
> o   confirm our observations or not,
>
> o   provide a link to the nightly build version which helped the guy
> with the prod block problem -- or an equivalent one?
>
> Although the only answer we got right now was somebody advising us to
> switch to scicos we still cannot believe Scilab 5.2.2 has been *all the
> time until now* in a state as unstable as we found it -- we are
> desperately looking for a solution.
>
> *Please* answer and do not keep silent...
>
>
> Thank you a lot in advance,
>
>     Nick
>
>
>