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

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le lundi 21 juin 2010 à 09:30 +0200, Nick Rudnick a écrit :
> Hello Sylvestre,
>
> If I have a choice, I would prefer to assist in fixing bugs at the
> Linux builds, which still suffer from problems that prohibit usage --
> I inspected mostly the 64 bit version, but I expect the 32 bit version
> to be equally affected, as the error message seemingly is thrown by
> the Java frontend.
We are currently focusing the development version. That means we are not
testing a lot the binary. We will starting doing so in the next few days
for the first beta of Scilab 5.3.0. 

> Specifically, at scilab-master-1276266589.bin.linux-x86_64.tar.gz, I
> would like to present the error message I receive -- as I suspect a
> java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError to be possibly a problem of access to a
> native library which might be very easy to solve. It is thrown
> whenever I try to drag something out of the palette browser (didn't
> find this at Bugzilla):
Thanks for the bug report. 
This might be related to an issue with hdf5 libraries.

> 
> In regard of a tutorial, I am in fact writing at the moment something
> which might be regarded as one, 20-30 pages, with economically
> motivated examples which should be easy to integrate into lessons,
> consuming about 2-6 hours of lecture, depending on the students.
OK, great. Let me know how it goes!

> Once I can forward working binaries for Linux, too, I will be very
> satisfied, and could assist the Tk to JGraphX transition -- here I
> first would like to improve the branching of connections.
I am not sure to understand what you are talking about here ?!
AFAIK, there is no Tk into Xcos now.

> Seemingly, some (O)Caml code is used inside Scilab... very interesting
> stuff... :-)
Indeed, we use it for the Modelica capabilities in Xcos.

By the way, if you don't mind, we could switch to dev at lists.scilab.org
(or private if you prefer) to chat about contribution aspects.

Thanks,
Sylvestre