Octave console in 3.0.1... still crashes out

[Michael Goffioul]

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:20 PM, spasmous <spasmous at gmail.com> wrote:
> I upgraded from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 and noticed that the Console interface is no
> longer bundled. I know there was a problem with crash on exit (when clicking
> [x]) that got attributed to Console. So it should be gone now, right?
> Unfortunately wrong. Even with the native DOS style window the error still
> occurs upon clicking [x]. So I think this is not a problem with Console.
> Perhaps the error is in Octave after all? Perhaps Console can get re-bundled
> in 3.0.2, it was a nice addition.

The "crash-on-close" problem was not the reason of the removal of
Console2 from the binary package. This problems always existed
in normal windows command prompt.  Console has been removed,
because it generated additional complaints with IMO very little gain
(WinXP command prompt can be configured [size, font, colors...],
but the settings dialog is not very visible) and it made people think
it was part of octave, while it is not.

To replace Console, the package includes a preliminary release of
OctaveDE that contains a terminal emulation. In the end, this terminal
emulation will allow to avoid the crash-on-close problem, because
we'll have more control on the exit process.

People missing Console can still download it from Console home
page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/console). It's quite easy to
get octave running in it.

Michael.