Re: Octave 3.4.2-rc2 release candidate available for ftp

[Robert T. Short]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 23-Jun-2011, Robert T. Short wrote:
>
> | I didn't build from the tarball, but from the mercurial sources.  When I
> | start from the build directory, I get
> |
> |>./runoctave
> | GNU Octave, version 3.4.1
> | Copyright (C) 2011 John W. Eaton and others.
> | (etc.)
> |
> |
> |
> |
> | Where does the version get set?  I find '3.4.1' in a bunch of places
> | including the Makefile
> | OCTAVE_VERSION = 3.4.1
> | but don't find any 3.4.2.
> |
> | The way I built was to
> |>  hg clone http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
> |>  hg update stable
> |
> | the build and install seem to have worked ok.
> |
> | I don't find tags for release 3.4.1 or 3.4.2.
>
> Oops, I forgot to push some changesets to savannah.  That's done now,
> so the head of the stable branch should be 3.4.2-rc2.
>
> It looks like I also forgot to tag 3.4.1 (I thought I did it,
> honest).  That's done now, but I haven't tagged 3.4.2 yet since it
> isn't released.  I wasn't planning to tag release candidates, but I
> could if people think that is useful.
>
> Since I now have reports of success on GNU/Linux, OS X, Cygwin and
> MinGW (at least using the change that I checked in for rc2 applied to
> rc1, I think) I plan to make the 3.4.2 release tomorrow unless
> something critical is reported before then.
>
> jwe
>
>
>
>    
Ok.  I will try again.  I can't imagine I will find any real problems, 
so go for the release.

Thanks, John.