Octave 3.3.50 available for ftp

[John W. Eaton]

A new snapshot of Octave is now available from ftp.octave.org in the
directory /pub/octave/bleeding-edge:

  51b3d27bc6bf48a7e5964859ff261467  octave-3.3.50.tar.bz2
  355aa529db2228001fa12627a19f7f77  octave-3.3.50.tar.gz
  0731597b8ec1f21df211705215b381bb  octave-3.1.55-3.3.50.patch.bz2
  129c177cd8f58dc2b98ad6a453056d0f  octave-3.1.55-3.3.50.patch.gz

  -rw-r--r-- 1 506 1012 10823953 Sep 12 13:51 octave-3.3.50.tar.bz2
  -rw-r--r-- 1 506 1012 12351744 Sep 12 13:53 octave-3.3.50.tar.gz
  -rw-r--r-- 1 506 1012  1315884 Sep 12 13:53 octave-3.1.55-3.3.50.patch.bz2
  -rw-r--r-- 1 506 1012  1630268 Sep 12 13:53 octave-3.1.55-3.3.50.patch.gz

The snapshot is tagged in the usual way (ss-3-3-50) in the Mercurial
archive and will be marked as the "development" version of
Octave on the download page of the Octave web site.

Please remember that these snapshots are provided for testing
purposes.  I do not consider them to be Octave releases.  If people
think there will be confusion because of the version number, then we
can add a notice to the Octave startup message.  Changing the version
number to something like ss-2009-09-12 is not an option because it
will cause trouble with typical version comparison functions (for
example, that are sometimes used for building Octave Forge packages).

This snapshot includes the new experimental OpenGL-based graphics
code, but the gnuplot backend is used by default.  Assuming you have
all the required libraries and have built the OpenGL bits properly,
you should be able to switch to the new backend with the command

  backend ("fltk");

Plots should mostly work, but there may still be some font problems.
Printing has also not been implemented for the fltk backend.  PLEASE
DO NOT REPORT THESE LIMITATIONS AS BUGS.  If you would like to see
these features improve at a more rapid pace, please help with
implementing the things you miss most...

jwe