Re: Has development of Freemat ceased?

[Timothy Cyders]

Mark,

Samit has made some changes here and there, but it's been about a year and a half since then. To be honest, the few of us (Samit, Demetrios, Eugene, Chuong, Gary, myself and others) who were active in development a few years ago have been kind of swept away with work. I try to respond to help requests on here when I can, and Jonathan and some others have done a good job of contributing in that way as well. I'd love to see things pick up again on the software development side, but I'm buried in work to an extent that I can't be the catalyst that makes that happen. I expect the same is true of the other guys as well. I'm copying freemat-devel on this as well. Wish I had a rosier response, but it is what it is.

Cheers,

TJ

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Mark Knecht <markk...@gmail.com> wrote:

I only found Freemat a couple of days ago so I'm very new to it. I'm quite impressed with it's capabilities (and it's GREAT documentation) but that said I'm running into multiple bugs and I don't see any releases in nearly 18 months. Has the development team moved on or it the newer stuff somewhere else?

Problems I'm seeing right now:

Windows version:
- Opening Help causes a complete crash - This problem appears to have been around unfixed for well over a year.


Linux version: (Gentoo Linux, version 4.2)
- Basic plot() function call fails completely:

--> x = linspace(-pi,pi);

--> y = cos(x);

--> plot(x,y,'r-');

In /usr/share/FreeMat-4.2/toolbox/graph/private/parseit.m(/usr/share/FreeMat-4.2/toolbox/graph/private:parseit) at line 5

    In /usr/share/FreeMat-4.2/toolbox/graph/private/islinespec.m(/usr/share/FreeMat-4.2/toolbox/graph/private:islinespec) at line 21

    In /usr/share/FreeMat-4.2/toolbox/graph/plot.m(plot) at line 38

    In docli(builtin) at line 1

    In base(base)

    In base()

    In global()

Error: Illegal range in get

--> 

- plot3d - Freemat creates the plot but the rotational controls only move the window, they don't rotate the graphics.

Anyway, if developers have moved on and are busy elsewhere then that would be a bit sad but I understand how Open Source development goes sometimes. If there's still interest in developers and you need Linux testers then I hope you'll get in touch.

Cheers,

Mark

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