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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