John W. Eaton
@theoctaveguy
Followers
130
Following
0
Media
0
Statuses
17
Original author and current maintainer of GNU Octave, Free Software advocate, and all around great guy.
The Intertubes
Joined January 2014
Working on generating the first candidate for the 3.8.2 release.
1
1
4
The Octave 3.8.1 source release is available now: http://t.co/uGiuI33EGz
0
2
2
Octave will be a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code this year: http://t.co/6YBXXLiJvw
0
0
0
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
0
0
1
Most of the failures appear to be due to building with --disable-docs. Things are looking better than I thought. So Yay, progress, right?
0
0
0
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...
0
0
0
Ah, compiling SuiteSparse with the right LONGBLAS settings makes a big difference...
0
0
0
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...
0
0
0
One step closer to "one-button" cross compiling of Octave for Windows, including all Octave run-time dependencies: http://t.co/RXWBp4IabX
0
0
1
We're just past halfway towards our fundraising goal of $450k by 1/31. Help build us up for 2014. http://t.co/HK1LydFHnC
0
6
2
Integrating QtHandles with Octave. One step closer to 4.0 and having the GUI enabled by default.
0
0
0
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!"
0
0
0
With this change, http://t.co/FPXPicilht, getting closer to running http://t.co/RuSpzDdoa0 in Octave.
0
0
0
@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?
0
0
2
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.
0
0
0
I'll be using this account to post updates and musing about GNU Octave. http://t.co/3nbRuvmL1n.
0
0
1