On Thu, 30 May 2002, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > I've seen that this feature was not mentioned in the announcement, but than > this is really not complete yet, and, more important, it is really just a > big hack.
I know. But end-users don't mind whether it is a hack or incomplete, as long as it sreves for their needs. The thing I would like to emphasize is that the code is working splendidly well. It is quite stable( I have not had any crashes recently), and works surprisingly well. I even have hot keys for "math-extern maple", "math-extern maple simplify", "math-extern maple factor" and "math-extern maple evalm". > > So I thought we could as well keep it "secret", and work on it for a > while and have something for the next release... > Why being secret? After all, this is the developer's lists and you can get some helps from others. > > This is indeed a severe limitation. I have a secret plan on how to overcome > this deficiency, but it will take a while ;-} > I volunteer to be the "guinea pig" for your secret plan. > I personally only use the octave "backend" as some kind of built-in > calculator, but if people are using it for serious work I think it could > be added to the announcement at least on the web page. > If you can, please do. ----cghan
