Re: Octave 3.3.91 snapshot available for ftp

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

Thank for making a new snapshot.  I will to build it report it.
It the build will be successful, I will update my testing binary distribution 
for windows
--- "John W. Eaton"  wrote:

> 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):
> 
>   9a35d8c8a8a97a4ccde1691b10ec9752  octave-3.3.90-3.3.91.patch.bz2
>   9a97b72f2beaeb36e4d1d3cffa024fe9  octave-3.3.90-3.3.91.patch.gz
>   cdde45192b40b0a30ab8d20b93943269  octave-3.3.91.tar.bz2
>   e002ca80f63aaebce61ae341a3da6a02  octave-3.3.91.tar.gz
> 
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 1003 65534   338610 Jan 31 14:08 octave-3.3.90-3.3.91.patch.bz2
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 1003 65534   514230 Jan 31 14:08 octave-3.3.90-3.3.91.patch.gz
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 1003 65534 14278925 Jan 31 14:10 octave-3.3.91.tar.bz2
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 1003 65534 16972711 Jan 31 14:14 octave-3.3.91.tar.gz
> 
> The snapshot is tagged in the usual way (ss-3-3-91) 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 gnuplot is still 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 grahpics toolkit with the
> command
> 
>   graphics_toolkit ("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.
> 
> Even if you have been building Octave regularly from the Mercurial
> archive, it would help if you could build from the snapshot and report
> any problems.
> 
> jwe
> 


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