On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 05:09:57PM +0100, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote: > 2012/2/15 Carnë Draug <carandraug+...@gmail.com>: > > Hi everyone > > > > the miscellaneous package has an implementation of waitbar which has > > now been implemented in octave core. I was thinking about removing > > this function from the package but the API between the two is > > different (the one in core will be matlab compatible) which means that > > would break code that uses it. However, if we deprecate instead of > > removing it, the package will be shadowing the core function which in > > my opinion is worse. > > > > My opinion is to remove it completely, leave a note on the package > > NEWS and bump the medium version number (rather than bumping the minor > > which is 11 right now. There's a couple of large changes on the > > package anyway and I tend to see the minor version number as bugfixes > > releases only). Anyone has any opinions on this? > > > > Carnë > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Octave-dev mailing list > > Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev > > Hi, > > I was a frequent user of the old waitbar. I think is good to remove it > and give a NEWS, basically a link to the legacy code should be enough > (not every user of miscellaneous is a user of 3.6.+). > Also, the modifications to the code are minimal. > > cheers > > -- > M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal > ----- > PhD Student > University of Zürich > http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/
Though I never used waitbar, if Octaves waitbar is graphics only, it could be good to still have an additional text-based one (e.g. for slow remote access). What about renaming the waitbar in miscellaneous to, say, text_waitbar? Olaf -- public key id EAFE0591, e.g. on x-hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
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