Re: exist, configure, doc2tex and \index

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Petr Mikulik wrote:
>>>1. In ./configure, shouldn't strings "(EXPERIMENTAL)" be removed now?
>>>Won't be "nice" for 4.2.
>>
>>Are you sure you are looking at the current source?
>>That EXPERIMENTAL marking was removed 12 June 2006.
> 
> 
> There are still the following:
> 
>    Enable command line macros (EXPERIMENTAL)
>    Enable placement of rectangles and other objects (EXPERIMENTAL)
>    Enable plot style image (EXPERIMENTAL)
>    Enable general binary data file reading (EXPERIMENTAL)
>    Enable X11 polygon info in binary, not ascii (EXPERIMENTAL)
>    Enable wxWidgets interactive terminal (EXPERIMENTAL)

I would be fine with leaving those in.  To me, "experimental" means it is new and works for the most part but once mass use occurs there may be some adjustments; say there is some unforseen conflict of syntax.

Is that a position to take on new items?  I.e., we tried hard to avoid syntax changes, but with experimental items that likelihood may be slightly higher.

Dan