Re: R: 3.2.0

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Marco Atzeri <address@hidden> wrote:
> --- Mar 19/5/09, Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden> ha scritto:
>
>> Da: Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden>
>> Oggetto: 3.2.0
>> A: "octave maintainers list" <address@hidden>
>> Data: Martedì 19 maggio 2009, 12:39
>> dear all,
>>
>> as we're approaching the end of May, I think most involved
>> users'
>> expectations (incl. me) as to when Octave 3.2.0 will be out
>> were
>> already exceeded.
>>
>> So here's my offer: I'll start preparing 3.2.0 now. Since
>> apparently
>> few people were pleased by my idea of using a "stable" repo
>> on
>> savannah (already operational, but still empty), I think
>> I'll reuse
>> the established procedure and make the 3.2.x on Thomas
>> Weber's
>> hosting. I'll clone the current tip in the release-3-2-x
>> repository
>> and then make a number of release candidates as usual,
>> hopefully
>> resulting in a stable 3.2.0 release somewhere by the end of
>> May,
>> depending on the responsiveness of our regular builders.
>>
>> The 3.2.x branch will work the same way 3.0.x did, and I'll
>> try to
>> make releases approximately once per 2 months. Using
>> release
>> candidates seemed to be by far the most successful
>> approach, although
>> demanding a bit more from my part, but it seems I'll be
>> able to handle
>> it at least until the end of the year (yeah and we don't
>> expect any
>> newborn children this year :).
>>
>> Further discussions about the development model are still
>> welcome, but
>> right now my feeling is that keeping users stuck with 3.0.x
>> is wasting
>> their time and preventing their better experience with
>> Octave.
>>
>> Are there any objections? Remember, we don't want a perfect
>> release,
>> just a good one in due time.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> --
>> RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
>> computing expert & GNU Octave developer
>> Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
>> Prague, Czech Republic
>> url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz
>
> Hi Jaroslav,
> for cygwin I would like to include
> the following two patches before 3.2:
>
> - hg_conf3
> corrects my mistake in SHLBINPRE SHLBIN for cygwin.
> This fault arise only in the installation phase so I missed
> it before.
>
> - hg_sysdep2
> completly removes the CYGWIN_init as it not needed.
>
>
> Thanks
> Marco
>

I applied both of those.

thanks

-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz