[Scilab-users] Scilab 5.4 Release

[Antoine Monmayrant]

On 25/09/2012 10:56, Vincent COUVERT wrote:
> Dear Patrick,
>
> Thanks for your email, feedbacks and encouragements.
>
> We are currently working on Scilab 5.4.0 future version in order to 
> release it next week.
>
> Indeed, nightly builds and beta versions are development versions and 
> can be buggy. 5-10 minutes drop-out bug is known and have already been 
> fixed as you have probably noticed in the nightly build.
Sorry to hijack the conversation but is bug #11257 (memory leak in 
graphics) solved in the recent nightly?
Last time I checked a nightly, the issue was there.
Even with the workaround proposed in 
http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11257#c6 graphics were 
unusable for me and my colleagues.
That's a show stopper for us if 5.4 ships with such a bug .... :-(

Antoine



>
> Dealing with the help pages issue, we have had an issue with the 
> Japanese documentation which has impacted the rest, but be reassured, 
> it will be corrected for the final version release. Do you confirm 
> that you tried to use the Japanese version or could it be another problem?
>
> Concerning our market positioning and future offer, we indeed plan to 
> have a Long Term Support version of Scilab for subscriptors, and that 
> will include support and maintenance. We have officially announced it 
> during our last ScilabTEC. LTS versions will likely be available next 
> year.
>
> Regards,
> Vincent COUVERT
>
> Le 25/09/12 09:32, Blee, Patrick a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> Firstly, congrats on the development -- certainly a mammoth task but 
>> the continual improvement of Scilab/xcos environment is clearly evident !
>> Whilst I start on a positive note, I'm afraid to report my journey to 
>> Scilab/Xcos, through Scicos, has been fraught with difficulties.
>> The main one has always been _stability_.
>> Firstly, the improvement in the user environment going from 5.3.x to 
>> 5.4.x has been immense.
>> However, none of the versions I have downloaded have been stable -- 
>> scilab has always bombed out when I was modifying an xcos file or 
>> indeed an xcos subsystem has corrupted the simulation and, again, 
>> crashed scilab.
>> I briefly tried the most up-to-date 5.4 version yesterday (nightly 
>> build)  - but it had no help files -- while 5.4 beta 3 suffered the 
>> 5-10 minute drop-out.
>> This is frustrating as there is so much potential in the package -- 
>> particularly in how it links in so many user-contributed toolboxes.
>> Whilst the above may sound negative, believe me, it is not intended 
>> to be -- I think this package is going to take Simulation tools to an 
>> interesting place !
>> I have 2 questions today:
>>
>>  1. Have you an idea as to when v5.4 will reach the end of the
>>     present development phase and be bug-free?
>>  2. Is the long-term plan to hand over/sell Scilab to a Corporate
>>     player, introducing a pricing strategy?
>>     (This would be a concern from my perspective as the
>>     Open-Architecture and Freeware nature of the package to date is a
>>     real attraction to the Student/Hobby fraternity -- possibly
>>     encouraging people to enter the field of Engineering down the line).
>>
>> Best of luck with the on-going development and I hope to hear from 
>> you soon,
>> Patrick
>>
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