On 15 February 2012 16:44, 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 >> >> 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 > > 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
Done. Thanks for the suggestion Olaf, that's definitely a better idea. 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
