Re: Octave 3.4.2-rc2 release candidate available for ftp

[Robert T. Short]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> The second release candidate of Octave 3.4.2 is now available from
> alpha.gnu.org in the directory /gnu/octave:
>
>    511a77ea089772f8ffa1dd232f2421d5  octave-3.4.2-rc2.tar.gz
>
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 1003 65534 17634466 Jun 22 23:07 octave-3.4.2-rc2.tar.gz
>
> Even if you have been building Octave regularly from the Mercurial
> archive, it would help if you could build from this release candidate
> and report any problems.  We could especially use reports for Windows
> and OS X systems.
>
> Unless there are reports of problems in the next couple of days, this
> will become the 3.4.2 release.
>
> jwe
>
>
>    
I built this (from mercurial sources) on a debian stable system.  Not 
surprisingly it built, passed all the tests, and installed no problem.  
It also passed all my own builtin tests and I will run other tests over 
the next few days.

Note that the revision still says 3.4.1.

John, I don't know if this is of any interest but I built a little 
mercurial extension that performs some simple release management.  It is 
pretty trivial, but I have found it useful for some of my own stuff.  
Basically, you just tag a release (or release candidate) and when you type
> hg release
it displays the most recent release on the standard out:
3.4.1rc1
If there have been changes since the release it shows the release plus 
the tip revision:
> hg release
3.4.1 rc1[756ad555]

If there is any interest at all, I can share it - and then fix all the 
bugs you find.

Bob