[gnome-summary] REQUEST TO ADD: gcalctool - the next generation.

[Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>]

Done.

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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:43:21 -0800 (PST)
From: Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>
Subject: Re: GNOME Summary February 1 - February 7, 2004
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To: Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>
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Certainly, can you mail it to gnome-summary gnome org?  That way I can 
look back in the archives.  Maybe add "REQUEST TO ADD" or something like 
that so it's easy to spot.

sri

 > 
> Hi Sri,
> 
> Next time you do a GNOME summary, any chance you could mention the
> following please?  We are looking for feedback on this new version.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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> >From richb bos-mail1 eng sun com  Wed Feb  4 12:06:14 2004
> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:06:14 -0800 (PST)
> From: Rich Burridge <richb bos-mail1 eng sun com>
> Subject: gcalctool - the next generation.
> To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Cc: sampie utu fi
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Over the past few months, Sami Pietila has been working on fixing some of
> gcalctool's limitations. Namely:
> 
>   * the ability to handle arithmetic operator precedence (bug #121710)
>   * adding in expression parsing                         (bug #116913)
>   * better handling of incorrect syntax in user input    (bug #126126)
> 
> This work will also eventually make it much easier to:
> 
>   * add in support for reverse polish notation (RPN)     (bug #35045)
> 
> This version of gcalctool uses bison for parsing and flex for tokenisation.
> 
> Sami's done a great job, and it's now time for peer-review.
> 
> As this is still a work-in-progress, we've setup a separate branch under
> GNOME CVS to do this. If you've like to try out this new version you can
> get the latest from GNOME CVS with:
> 
>   % cvs co -r gcalctool-ng gcalctool
> 
> There is also a .tar.gz snapshot of the initial version at:
> 
>   http://users.utu.fi/~sampie/gcalctool/gcalctool-5.3.42.tar.gz
> 
> We've bumped the major version number from 4 to 5. The minor and micro
> version numbers will track their equivalent version of gcalctool from
> CVS HEAD. In other words, v5.3.42 has all the bug fixes/enhancements of
> v4.3.42 plus the features mentioned above.
> 
> We are looking for feedback. I'm going to sic Calum on it, for it's UI/HIG
> review, but we've also appreciate folks telling us what they think of it.
> 
>   * Will it work in other locales?
>   * Should arithmetic operator precedence be the default in all modes?
> 
> Just to make it clear. This version of gcalctool is not production quality
> yet. We've added "Experimental" to the titlebar and the About box. It's not
> flashing in large bold red lettering and klaxon.wav isn't playing in the 
> background, but hopefully it'll be obvious. If you are planning on building 
> any bridges, I suggest that this isn't the calculator for you (just yet).
> 
> Our plan is to eventually move this work to CVS HEAD when it's stable and
> most (all?) of the bugs have been removed. The timing for this is unknown 
> at the moment.
> 
> If you find bugs, please report them in Bugzilla as normal, just make sure 
> you include the 5.x.y version number so that we know this is a bug for
> the gcalctool-ng version.
> 
> There is a section in the gcalctool-ng gcalctool TODO file for things that
> still need to be done, plus a gcalctool-ng gcalctool FIXME file. Check there
> first to see if the problem you've found is already known.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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