Re: 3.6.1 release

[Lukas Reichlin]

On 25.02.2012, at 04:44, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 24-Feb-2012, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> 
> | On 22 February 2012 14:28, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> | > On 18-Feb-2012, Rik wrote:
> | >
> | > | Are we okay to release 3.6.1?
> | 
> | > Sorry for the delay.
> | 
> | So are we gonna have a release party or what? I'm still saving the
> | champagne from the 3.6.0 party we missed.
> 
> Does the following look OK as a release announcement?
> 
>  To: octave help mailing list <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>  Subject: GNU Octave 3.6.1 Released
>  From: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
> 
>  The Octave developers are pleased to announce the release of GNU
>  Octave 3.6.1.  This version is a major new release.
> 
>  The source code for Octave 3.6.1 is available for download at:
> 
>    http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave
>    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave
> 
>  Please see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html for mirror sites around
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> 
>  Links to binary (executable) versions for various systems will be
>  listed at http://octave.org/download.html as they become
>  available.
> 
>  Please see http://octave.org/NEWS-3.6.html for a list of significant
>  user-visible changes in this release.
> 
>  To help improve future versions, please report problems using the
>  Octave bug tracker at http://bugs.octave.org.
> 
>  As always, many people contributed to this Octave release.  A complete
>  list of contributors may be found in the Octave manual.
> 
>  GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended
>  for numerical computations.  It provides capabilities for the numerical
>  solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing
>  other numerical experiments.  It also provides extensive graphics
>  capabilities for data visualization and manipulation.  Octave is
>  normally used through its interactive command line interface, but
>  it can also be used to write non-interactive programs.  The Octave
>  language is quite similar to Matlab so that most programs are easily
>  portable.  A full description of Octave capabilities is available at
>  http://octave.org/docs.html.
> 
> jwe

I attached my MacPorts portfile for 3.6.1. Unfortunately, it takes ages for 
MacPorts to release updated portfiles and my membership application is overdue 
by a month :-(
Regarding the portfile, please don't hesitate to give feedback of any kind. I 
use the variant +accelerate +fltk +gcc45.

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/32894

Lukas

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