FreeMat 4 released

[Samit Basu]

Hi

Eugene and I have uploaded FreeMat 4.0 to sourceforge. Until the
website gets updated, you can get it from here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemat/files/

I also don't have a 64 bit build for linux yet. We will try and get
the web site updated with release notes in the next week.

FreeMat 4.0 is a significant update from 3.6, and includes many
features that are designed to make it more compatible with Matlab. We
will be putting together a porting guide in the next couple of weeks
also.

Enjoy!

Samit

[Garystar]

Got it loaded and looks great thus far. Great work, Samit!

I'm starting to update the Freemat Primer for 4.0. Won't be able to
publish until classes are over in December. But the Freemat is
working great for getting me through those classes!

Gary

[Ferromula]

I downloaded the Mac version of FreeMat 4.0 and noticed that it was an
Intel only version.
I am still running on a PowerMac G5 (Leopard of course) so I was
wondering if there are plans
to also produce a Mac PPC version of FreeMat 4.0 (or even better a
Universal version),
or if I should just wait for the porting guide to come out and then
try to build a PPC package
of FreeMat 4.0 myself. Just wondering. Keep up the good work--it is
appreciated.

[Samit Basu]

Hello --

I can try and build a PPC version. I haven't tried it, and I no
longer have a PPC machine to test it on. If you are willing to test
the bundle, I can try and post one.

Samit

[Ferromula]

Samit,

If you can easily produce the PPC bundle, I would be glad to test it
on my PowerMac G5. I mainly use FreeMat for its matrix functions
(inversion, eigenvalues, eigenvectors), so I'm not a real heavy user
of all the other extensive features of FreeMat that some others users
may be, but I would certainly test it with what I regularly use.

Thanks, Ferromula

[Stephen Clark]

I just realize something, someone who's name I don't know, asked me about graphs yesterday (Wednesday) on FreeMat, I notice that FreeMat doesn't like to plot more than two graphs in the same window, and you have to use subplot ( 2, 1, graph# ), or else one plot will cover the other. If you plot the norm of a vector, the scale's off so you only see a strait line.