[SIP-devel] SIP 0.4.0 Candidate 1

[Ricardo F. <rf...@if...>]

SIP 0.4.0 release candidate 1 is out for public testing. It brings
major new features, read on! Generic sourcecode is available, as well
as an EASY-TO-INSTALL BINARY for GNU/Linux systems. Windows binaries
will be released soon. Grab the new version in the Download section at
http://siptoolbox.sf.net

This list highlights the main changes from 0.3.1 to 0.4.0. Read the
previous changelogs for minor improvements and details.

   + Help files moved to XML/HTML format and were totally revised;
   + NEW hsv2rgb and rgb2hsv functions to convert between RGB images
     and HSV (Hue Saturation Intensity) images.
   + NEW radon and iradon functions
   + NEW sip_set_verbose, sip_quiet and sip_wordy functions to adjust
     the messaging level issued by sip routines. For instance, this
     may be used to stop imread and mogrify from issuing verbose
     messages.
   + NEW sip_setenv to set environment variables.
   + imvariance is now coded in C for efficiency
   + unwrapl and unwrapp functions are now coded in C. unwrapl now
     returns the unwrapped_phase and the phase_jumps.
   + NEW rgbplot function to plot the RGB components of a colormap
   + NEW sip_colormap function
   + FIX to imread: when you read a non-indexed image (such as
     truecolor or binary) with two output parameters, imread crashed
     scilab in some cases. This is now fixed. (thx to )
   + FIX regarding truecolor images in imwrite, imread and mogrify
     functions, by using scilab's new hypermatrix structure.
   + imwrite now supports the "depth" optional argument to set image
     depth. It defaults to 16bpp, but one can now set it to 8bpp.
   + GANDALF is NOT needed anymore for the a source build
   + Animal 0.14.0 or later is required for a source build
   + Virtually any version of ImageMagick is now supported for
     compiling from source (all  versions down to 5.4.2)
   + Both sabcmd and xsltproc are supported to build the help pages;
     SIP will use whichever is available.
   + NEW preliminary imxprofile, wich has some improvements to
     improfile but is not fully functional.
   + INCOMPATIBLE: function angle changed to "getangle"
   + Many other bugfixes and minor improvements

   Main Developers: Ricardo Fabbri and Jocelyn Druel.
   Special Thanks to: Sandro da Silva, Leandro Estrozi, Edson
   Nakamura, Dean Messing, Enrico Segre, Torsten Werner


0.4.0 RC1 (changes from the latest sip-dev)
   + FIXED small syntax error in imroi.sci
   + Binaries are available


Compilation and installation is suited for Linux, but should
workcorrectly in other unix systems. I use Slackware Linux 9.1.
Please report to the list any problems that you see with SIP in other
distros.

You shall install the new SIP version over the older ones
without problems, but if you want, you can remove the old version
like this: in the unix shell, change dir to the old SIP-dev then type
the following:

prompt# make uninstall

Also please comment out any "exec ...loader.sce" instructions from
your ".scilab" startup file before installing a new version.

Enjoy!

Ricardo.

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