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

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Hello Nick,

We will try to provide good nightly build during next week (on our code
review system [1], we accepted a lot of new patches during the last few
days. They should fix some issues) and we are planning to release a beta
of Scilab 5.3.0 during the next few weeks. 

If you want to help, you are welcome. There are many way to help us. You
can provide some real life demos (or showing what we should improve) on
Xcos (or Scilab). With some coordination with Clément, you could also
help us by fixing some bugs [2] or provide some tutorials on Xcos. 

There are many ways to help us, it is up to you. 
Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Sylvestre
[1] http://codereview.scilab.org/
[2] http://bugzilla.scilab.org/

Le vendredi 18 juin 2010 à 16:38 +0200, Nick Rudnick a écrit :
> SIGH... Thank you for answering, Clément,
> 
> This gives hope... With at least mediocre Java & C/C++ knowledge, is 
> there a way to assist you?
> 
> I would be interested in binaries for {Linux|Windows}{64|32} to be 
> handed out to our students -- do you know of a nightly build of the past 
> time that ran quite stable? I saw lots of new features (especially in 
> regard of the GUI) at the current nightly build; maybe there is on 
> without these, but running fine?
> 
> We are only doing introductory stuff, no specialties are needed -- 
> others might also be interested in having a (temporary) link to a such 
> release, I assume.
> 
> If the delay is as described by Ray -- do you already have a theory how 
> this might be fixed, and can I support you in any way? I would love to 
> contribute in making available these four binaries for 
> {Linux|Windows}{64|32}...
> 
> 
> All the best,
> 
>     Nick
> 
> 
> Clément DAVID wrote:
> > 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
> 

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