John W. Eaton

Original author and current maintainer of GNU Octave, Free Software advocate, and all around great guy.

[John W. Eaton @theoctaveguy]

Working on generating the first candidate for the 3.8.2 release.

[John W. Eaton @theoctaveguy]

The Octave 3.8.1 source release is available now: http://t.co/uGiuI33EGz

[John W. Eaton @theoctaveguy]

Octave will be a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code this year: http://t.co/6YBXXLiJvw

[John W. Eaton @theoctaveguy]

One step closer to 4.0! The Initial QtHandles patch is now in the Octave gui-release branch (and merged to default): http://t.co/uWZJ3mIzfK

[John W. Eaton @theoctaveguy]

Happy birthday to Octave. 22 years today.

[John W. Eaton @theoctaveguy]

Most of the failures appear to be due to building with --disable-docs. Things are looking better than I thought. So Yay, progress, right?

[John W. Eaton @theoctaveguy]

Now I'm seeing 130+ failures in the test suite on Windows with --enable-64 but at least the test suite doesn't crash Octave...

[John W. Eaton @theoctaveguy]

Ah, compiling SuiteSparse with the right LONGBLAS settings makes a big difference...

[John W. Eaton @theoctaveguy]

I just asked for advice about the upcoming 3.8.1 release on the mailing list. Cue the peanut gallery comments in 3, 2, 1...

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One step closer to "one-button" cross compiling of Octave for Windows, including all Octave run-time dependencies: http://t.co/RXWBp4IabX

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We're just past halfway towards our fundraising goal of $450k by 1/31. Help build us up for 2014. http://t.co/HK1LydFHnC

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Integrating QtHandles with Octave. One step closer to 4.0 and having the GUI enabled by default.

[John W. Eaton @theoctaveguy]

Why "theoctaveguy"? When I tell people I work on Octave and they realize I that STARTED the project, they say, "Oh, YOU'RE the Octave guy!"

[John W. Eaton @theoctaveguy]

With this change, http://t.co/FPXPicilht, getting closer to running http://t.co/RuSpzDdoa0 in Octave.

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@brett_t_stewart I don't think twitter is a good place for bug reports. Or would you like to see tweets about fixed bugs?

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Octave 3.8.0 has been out for a week now. The new (still experimental) GUI seems to have stirred up a lot of activity.

[John W. Eaton @theoctaveguy]

I'll be using this account to post updates and musing about GNU Octave. http://t.co/3nbRuvmL1n.