On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Olaf Till <olaf.t...@uni-jena.de> wrote: > 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 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJPO+EFAAoJEMDkvsXq/gWR48EP+wbDzemdcTZkKELUZRUV1hTH > nhHEY4Gz+KTgu66t/kLGKi2MQWVdl9aUhX92ykV8VVITOnFIDHw92EF4xFc0qKFT > jZqZzuntt8rT3Jwzu67726TxAtWCLOn4l3mKSRCsXiUpejcy5LrSObwq4pqHiSy1 > ffvRQKxGITI3B6WVrtnGTO+c3s213G+IDDEM0wPgBu9u2ilgHHvXSdhkvlgFAnEe > GPD444iGWMrKqIZjdNN9z74xYVSDbwd35hs+Vi1a4U6/GRzZUlAjB7S/WPYVW4pP > WTmk+hShpgWm11amBsePIy0yhpkWTDtdgOwYOyG4g0HLJVDBzAMbHTYOqihnaOBq > IUPjQ1FWvohSN2rx9pScfQYciwl9KnGu7y3T6J6aY4YOXHf8ohVZGdJfFnd4kuKY > Sn5uDMyowlwEq6RBn92EZqbd8i6lbcEhb38v2Qv6MjZnsUXmUAN99vBCq2PIVjol > SKTWn/a/ZDCOvvpPYQ6SStZwl9q8LRqXu/4CppjCF6l42jrMFPG5dBlRm8yuwtQU > T3xaT+IfGYgoEjSXPTgqfBdyZqUkIzgwB0PyzaK7GZEIoM9WEl+hbe0ve8zHAsgm > o53uUMhMKnl8r2MrDgoo7Nx9fy8m3JZIhkRsnRzX8u5ezehLiWJ+skgIKmkm+hbb > l3bDzNum/vIzNqopbfNQ > =CTDK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
I definitely second Olaf here. -- 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/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
