Re: Octave 3.3.91 snapshot available for ftp

[marco atzeri]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:17 PM, 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
>

John,
building the cygwin package I noticed:

1) building in a separate dir, documentation fails as
    contributors.texi is expected in the build dir, but it is only
available in the src tree.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
make -C doc/interpreter ../../AUTHORS
make[3]: Entering directory
`/pub/cygports/octave/octave-3.3.91-1/build/doc/interpreter'
rm -f AUTHORS
/bin/sh /pub/cygports/octave/octave-3.3.91-1/src/octave-3.3.91/build-aux/missing
--run makeinfo -D AUTHORSONLY \
          --no-validate --no-headers --no-split --output AUTHORS preface.texi
preface.texi:82: @include `contributors.texi': No such file or directory.
makeinfo: Removing output file `AUTHORS' due to errors; use --force to preserve.
make[3]: [../../AUTHORS] Error 1 (ignored)
mv AUTHORS ../../AUTHORS
mv: cannot stat `AUTHORS': No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [../../AUTHORS] Error 1
----------------------------------------------------------


2) The date on the first page of the octave.pdf is wrong :-)
    Edition 3 for Octave version 3.3.91, July 2007

3) octave.info is updated/modified in the src tree


Regards
Marco