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Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release

author	David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr>
date	Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:41:10 +0200
parents	72b5e1701da2
children	44d206ae68c9

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7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.2:
5913 e915287e3ef9 [project @ 2006-07-28 17:06:14 by jwe] jwe parents: 5814 diff changeset	2 ---------------------------------------------------------
2452 a28ed603c65c [project @ 1996-10-31 19:49:29 by jwe] jwe parents: diff changeset	3
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	4 ** Compatibility with Matlab graphics is much better now.
6329 1d4b4312f782 [project @ 2007-02-20 06:37:09 by jwe] jwe parents: 5995 diff changeset	5
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	6 TO BE WRITTEN (Shai / Micheal inputs please)
6329 1d4b4312f782 [project @ 2007-02-20 06:37:09 by jwe] jwe parents: 5995 diff changeset	7
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	8 ** Eliminate the functions for direct access to gnuplot from Octave.
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	9 The functions __gnuplot_plot__, __gnuplot_set__, __gnuplot_raw__,
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	10 __gnuplot_show__, __gnuplot_replot__, __gnuplot_splot__,
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	11 __gnuplot_save_data__ and __gnuplot_send_inline_data__ have been
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	12 removed from Octave. These function were incompatible with the high
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	13 level graphics handle code.
6329 1d4b4312f782 [project @ 2007-02-20 06:37:09 by jwe] jwe parents: 5995 diff changeset	14
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	15 ** Object Oriented Programming
7189 e8d953d03f6a [project @ 2007-11-26 20:42:09 by dbateman] dbateman parents: 7038 diff changeset	16
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	17 TO BE WRITTEN
7038 4482ba9814b7 [project @ 2007-10-19 16:05:48 by jwe] jwe parents: 6835 diff changeset	18
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	19 ** Block comments
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	20 Commented code can be between matching "%{" and "%}" markers, even
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	21 if the commented code spans several line. This allows blocks code
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	22 to be commented, without needing to comment each line. For
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	23 example,
5814 67bf9b4f2ae2 [project @ 2006-05-11 21:58:34 by jwe] jwe parents: 5798 diff changeset	24
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	25 function y = func (x)
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	26 y = 2 * x;
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	27 %{
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	28 y += 1;
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	29 %}
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	30 endfunction
5814 67bf9b4f2ae2 [project @ 2006-05-11 21:58:34 by jwe] jwe parents: 5798 diff changeset	31
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	32 the line "y += 1;" will not be executed.
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	33
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	34 ** Removed the Control, Finance and Quaternions toolboxes
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	35 These toolboxes have been removed and ported to octave-forge, and
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	36 they are specialized toolboxes that not all users need. These
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	37 functions can be reinstalled use the Octave package manager (see
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	38 the pkg function) and the packages available at
2452 a28ed603c65c [project @ 1996-10-31 19:49:29 by jwe] jwe parents: diff changeset	39
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	40 http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html
2452 a28ed603c65c [project @ 1996-10-31 19:49:29 by jwe] jwe parents: diff changeset	41
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	42 ** The imwrite and imread function have been included in Octave based
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	43 on the GraphicsMagick library.
2452 a28ed603c65c [project @ 1996-10-31 19:49:29 by jwe] jwe parents: diff changeset	44
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	45 ** Special treatment in the parser of expressions like "a' * b". In
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	46 these cases the transpose is no longer explicitly formed and BLAS
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	47 libraries are called with the transpose flagged. This significantly
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	48 improves the speed.
2452 a28ed603c65c [project @ 1996-10-31 19:49:29 by jwe] jwe parents: diff changeset	49
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	50 ** Single Precision data type
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	51 Octave now includes a single precision data type. Single precision
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	52 variables can be created with the "single" command, or from
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	53 function like ones, etc. For example
5995 9223672bd578 [project @ 2006-09-21 20:09:44 by jwe] jwe parents: 5913 diff changeset	54
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	55 single (1)
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	56 ones (2, 2, "single")
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	57 zeros (2, 2, "single")
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	58 eye (2, 2, "single")
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	59 Inf (2, 2, "single")
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	60 NaN (2, 2, "single")
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	61 NA (2, 2, "single")
7279 72b5e1701da2 [project @ 2007-12-10 21:01:48 by jwe] jwe parents: 7189 diff changeset	62
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	63 all create single precision variables. Mixed double/single
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	64 precision operators and functions return single precision
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	65 types. As a consequence of this addition to Octave the internal
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	66 representation of the double precision NA value has changed, and
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	67 so users that make use of data generated by Octave with R or
86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	68 visa-versa are warned that compatibility might not be assured.
7279 72b5e1701da2 [project @ 2007-12-10 21:01:48 by jwe] jwe parents: 7189 diff changeset	69
7990 86dae6e5b83c Initial update of NEWS for 3.2 release David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr> parents: 7279 diff changeset	70 See NEWS.3 for old news.

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