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

[Clément DAVID]

Dear list,

I apologize for this inconvenience. We just released the 5.2.2 version
on a rush to correct some blocking bugs (related to hdf5 and our hdf5
wrapper) and just use a rapid validation phase.

The next version will provide more and more improvement on the Xcos
editor and we will validate it even more than any previous Xcos version.
If you are using nightly builds please resync the third-party repository
as some thirdparties has been updated.

Some delay may also appear when dragging icons from the palette please
report these issues if you find it unacceptable.

Regards,

Clément

> Nick,
>  
> The specific match is (b) dragging blocks in 5.2.2.  This did not work
> the first couple of times.  But after waiting a while, it worked.
> This was repeatable.
>  
> Ray
>         ----- Original Message ----- 
>         From: Nick Rudnick 
>         To: users at lists.scilab.org 
>         Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 10:32 PM
>         Subject: Re: [scilab-Users] SOS: Version with Xcos usable for
>         academic teaching??
>         
>         
>         Thank you, Ray,
>         
>         this is a hint :-) -- but are you speaking about the problem
>         
>         (a) the impossibility saving with SUM/PROD,
>         
>         (b) the impossibility of dragging blocks out of the Palette
>         browser,
>         
>         i.e. are you speaking about the current release 5.2.2 or a
>         nightly build (which one)?
>         
>         I already tried your proposal at some of our systems, without
>         success so far -- the nightly build is still missing, and I
>         would be very pleased if there is a solution. As it requires
>         GLIBC_2.11, which is not supported by my distro, I will get
>         another one running and try out.
>         
>         Hopefully, more people will reply to my request in the
>         meantime.
>         
>         
>         All the best,
>         
>             Nick
>         
>         
>         I tried the
>         
>         ray joseph wrote: 
>         > 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
>         > > 
>         > > 
>         > > 
>         > >     
>         > 
>         > 
>         >   
>