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/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
