YC
So, if I understand correctly:
scicoslab has the latest scicos but not the latest scilab features,
and
scilab has the lastest scilab but not the latest scicos?
And, both are being developed under separate organizations of INRIA?
Are there plans to merge them back together? Is this just a license
issue or is there some kind of split within INRIA? What does this
mean for the future of scilab / scicos / scicoslab? This seems like a
pretty serious schism.
It looks to me like you are on your way to developing a serious
competitor to Matlab. I've been a Matlab user for decades, but it is
very overpriced. And their Linux/Unix support has been weak. The
competition is welcome. I believe Matlab was originally an open
source like development. It is good to see the open source concept
return to quality mathematics tools.
I wish you the best of luck!
Yes
> And, both are being developed under separate organizations of INRIA?
> Are there plans to merge them back together? Is this just a license
> issue or is there some kind of split within INRIA? What does this
> mean for the future of scilab / scicos / scicoslab? This seems like a
> pretty serious schism.
Not exactly. Here is an extract from http://www.scicoslab.org:
ScicosLab is the new name of ScilabGtk. This change of name has been
decided in order to avoid all confusion with Scilab, which is no
longer developed at INRIA. ScicosLab is developed by some of the
researchers who originally developed Scilab at INRIA and ENPC.
ScicosLab is used in particular for disributing new software
developments stemming from research activities of the Metalau team at
INRIA and ENPC, such as Scicos and the Maxplus algebra toolbox.
> It looks to me like you are on your way to developing a serious
> competitor to Matlab. I've been a Matlab user for decades, but it is
> very overpriced. And their Linux/Unix support has been weak. The
> competition is welcome. I believe Matlab was originally an open
> source like development. It is good to see the open source concept
> return to quality mathematics tools.
> I wish you the best of luck!
I totally agree with you.
YC
YC
catali...@gmail.com a écrit :
This does not sound good. Although INRIA and Digiteo are both members
of the Scilab Consortium, it appears that there is a distinct break
between the development of Scilab and ScicosLab and therefore Scilab
and Scicos. Was the break over Java vs GTK? Or personalities? Or
money? (I can't imagine sex was involved.) I hope there is a way to
merge the efforts again. It was already too bad that energy was split
among Octave, FreeMat, and Scilab. While competition with Matlab is
good, I cannot see any good coming with the Scilab / Scicos split.
A lot of good comments. But, because I do not belong to any of these
organisations, I will not be able to answer.
(I hope that sex is the evil source of the split :-) )
YC
I totally agree with you.
If I were a Matlab salesperson, and had to argue over the cost of
Matlab over the free Scilab/Scicos, I would just print this page and
give it to my customer with a comment about committing costly
engineering time in such a mess.
IMHO, this kind of decision is absolutely catastrophic in terms of
public relation for Scilab / Scicos/Scicosxxx.
Or maybe there is an advantage in this way of developing incompatible
softwares that I do not understand. I am probably not alone to be
puzzled.
All my respects anyway to all people fighting for the development of
this/these software(s).
(If only sex was the cause of this decision ! At least two people
would have got some benefit out of it ! )
YC