Re: Is the 3.8 "release ” official?

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 12/30/2013 11:34 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-12-30 at 10:45 -0500, Michael D. Godfrey wrote:
>
> > I agree. Announce it has been released.
>
> I thought a release announcement would be quite disappointing for most
> people since most people (yes, most) won't be able to install Octave,
> and this disappointment would be large enough to overshadow any other
> achievements that the new release has done.
>
> But you guys seem to think that I'm wrong, and that we should announce
> the release now. I thought we only had one chance to make a good first
> impression with the new release, but maybe we'll have another chance
> with 4.0.

That's what the discussion a month or two ago was about.  The consensus 
seemed to be that we'd pull back and make the "fanfare" release of the 
GUI in 4.0.  As Carlo pointed out, waiting on binaries for Windows and 
OX has taken time.  It's been in the process of wrapping up a release 
since the middle of 2013.  I think it just points to the fact that 
software development is least time consuming on the Linux.

Would it make sense to create a branch point of 3.8 for Windows and OSX 
that have only Windows (in one branch) and OSX (in another branch) 
changes?  When those are working, make versions 3.8.1 and 3.8.2 
according to whichever is ready first.

Dan