Octave 2.1.57 available for ftp

[John W. Eaton]

Octave 2.1.57 is now available for ftp from ftp.octave.org in the
directory /pub/octave/bleeding-edge:

  -rw-r--r--  1 103  5333458 Mar 12 13:41 octave-2.1.57.tar.gz
  -rw-r--r--  1 103  4202080 Mar 12 13:41 octave-2.1.57.tar.bz2
  -rw-r--r--  1 103    14588 Mar 12 13:42 octave-2.1.56-2.1.57.patch.gz
  -rw-r--r--  1 103    13658 Mar 12 13:42 octave-2.1.56-2.1.57.patch.bz2

This version should fix most of the bugs reported since 2.1.56.

There are still some significant features related to N-d arrays that
need to be implemented, but this version does provide a cat function
and also allows you to use the [] to concatenate N-d numeric arrays.
This still needs to be extended to handle cell and structure arrays
and user-defined types.  We hope to fix this in the near future.
If you find that another of your favorite N-d array operations doesn't
work, please mention it so we can have some idea of what features are
missed the most.  Patches are also welcome.

As always, if your favorite bug is still not fixed, please report it.

Since we seem to be converging on something that works reasonably
well, I'm going to make a bold move and call 2.1.57 the recommended
version.  If there are any objections to that, or if you know of any
serious problems with 2.1.56 that you have not yet reported, please
speak up.

Thanks,

jwe