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Octave 3.3.54 snapshot available for ftp


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: Octave 3.3.54 snapshot available for ftp
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:31:19 -0500

A new snapshot of Octave is now available from alpha.gnu.org in the
directory /gnu/octave (note this is different from the location of
previous snapshots):

  da1d6152fafed452b573a4b9b5a44a93  octave-3.3.53-3.3.54.patch.bz2
  f17c51a0ab9b7f9bf87080a66ece3bdb  octave-3.3.53-3.3.54.patch.gz
  3443b2b48b0e7d17a272d80faf3bebee  octave-3.3.54.tar.bz2
  7faaaf990f1ec37f147e9d58112404f5  octave-3.3.54.tar.gz

  -rw-r--r-- 1 1003 65534   196979 Nov 19 21:17 octave-3.3.53-3.3.54.patch.bz2
  -rw-r--r-- 1 1003 65534   242326 Nov 19 21:17 octave-3.3.53-3.3.54.patch.gz
  -rw-r--r-- 1 1003 65534 13796777 Nov 19 21:20 octave-3.3.54.tar.bz2
  -rw-r--r-- 1 1003 65534 16328384 Nov 19 21:23 octave-3.3.54.tar.gz

The snapshot is tagged in the usual way (ss-3-3-54) 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


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