Octave 3.3.52 snapshot 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:

  1f50e2545db5d1fb79d1309bd7464d7b  octave-3.3.51-3.3.52.patch.bz2
  308d78b2fd1c67311d98528f78441a47  octave-3.3.51-3.3.52.patch.gz
  edb34f23a03b01e6667d7ef340b720f1  octave-3.3.52.tar.bz2
  2e313d6a4086f49a7e2d7e9e2f3e925c  octave-3.3.52.tar.gz

  -rw-r--r-- 1 506 1012   987587 Aug 01 18:57 octave-3.3.51-3.3.52.patch.bz2
  -rw-r--r-- 1 506 1012  1210936 Aug 01 18:57 octave-3.3.51-3.3.52.patch.gz
  -rw-r--r-- 1 506 1012 12867574 Aug 01 18:57 octave-3.3.52.tar.bz2
  -rw-r--r-- 1 506 1012 12582912 Aug 01 18:57 octave-3.3.52.tar.gz

The snapshot is tagged in the usual way (ss-3-3-52) 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 are still some problems.  If you
would like to see these graphics features improve at a more rapid
pace, please help with implementing the things you miss most.  We
would like to have "rundemos plot" working correctly before the next
major release.

jwe