Scilab / Scicoslab / Nsp?
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Mariusz Grecki
Feb 6, 2019, 1:54:22 AM2/6/19
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Hi,
I am a big fan of the scilab software family, I like them and I use them in my work. I started with scilab 3 and then everything was clear and simple... Then scilab development branched and nothing is now clear for me... maybe this is not the right place to ask, but since the creators of nsp are also deeply involved in scilab and scilabgtk I would like to ask:
- is scilab development still bounded somehow to nsp development? Is there a plan to converge some day?
- will scicoslab (scilabgtk) be developed or it will stay at the current state? (last change few years ago). My understanding is that nsp exchanged scicoslab and this is the only branch that will be developed in the future. Is that right understanding?
I am highly interested in the further development of this software package and porting it to other machines. After some days of effort, I have compiled scicoslab and later nsp on parallella (https://www.parallella.org/) and it works nicely (with help, scicos, graphics etc.). My further plans are to develop a library for epiphany parallel CPUs available in parallella board. But I would prefer to choose the most perspective branch. I understand at this moment that nsp is this one. Is that right?
I am a big fan of the scilab software family, I like them and I use them in my work. I started with scilab 3 and then everything was clear and simple... Then scilab development branched and nothing is now clear for me... maybe this is not the right place to ask, but since the creators of nsp are also deeply involved in scilab and scilabgtk I would like to ask:
- is scilab development still bounded somehow to nsp development? Is there a plan to converge some day?
- will scicoslab (scilabgtk) be developed or it will stay at the current state? (last change few years ago). My understanding is that nsp exchanged scicoslab and this is the only branch that will be developed in the future. Is that right understanding?
I am highly interested in the further development of this software package and porting it to other machines. After some days of effort, I have compiled scicoslab and later nsp on parallella (https://www.parallella.org/) and it works nicely (with help, scicos, graphics etc.). My further plans are to develop a library for epiphany parallel CPUs available in parallella board. But I would prefer to choose the most perspective branch. I understand at this moment that nsp is this one. Is that right?
jpc
Feb 6, 2019, 2:11:44 AM2/6/19
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Dear Mariuz,
Nsp is developed by the original members of the scilab group (Inria,Enpc) and Scilab development is completely separated for many years. We have no plan to merge, in fact I have no contact with them and the versions are now very different (java C++ for scilab, C + gtk for nsp).
Scicoslab is no more developed, the source is available, I make few changes from time to time just to adapt the code to gcc/gfortran evolutions but switching to nsp is encouraged.
Nsp is the new version, and most of the scicoslab functions have been ported to nsp which also contains new stuffs. The most important toolboxes of scicoslab are available in nsp.
Nsp manuals do not contain all the scicoslab manuals and effort should be done in that direction.
I would be interested to get the changes you made for parallela port to integrate them in the source code and thanks a lot for your work.
Best regards
jpc
Nsp is developed by the original members of the scilab group (Inria,Enpc) and Scilab development is completely separated for many years. We have no plan to merge, in fact I have no contact with them and the versions are now very different (java C++ for scilab, C + gtk for nsp).
Scicoslab is no more developed, the source is available, I make few changes from time to time just to adapt the code to gcc/gfortran evolutions but switching to nsp is encouraged.
Nsp is the new version, and most of the scicoslab functions have been ported to nsp which also contains new stuffs. The most important toolboxes of scicoslab are available in nsp.
Nsp manuals do not contain all the scicoslab manuals and effort should be done in that direction.
I would be interested to get the changes you made for parallela port to integrate them in the source code and thanks a lot for your work.
Best regards
jpc
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