Re: Octave 3.5.90 snapshot available for ftp

[marco atzeri]

On 12/15/2011 3:45 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> [Oops, I really thought I had sent this message, but there it was,
> hiding out as a draft in an Emacs buffer.  No wonder there were no
> replies... --jwe]
>
>
> A new snapshot of Octave is now available from alpha.gnu.org in the
> directory /gnu/octave:
>
>    54442245b840483f40b9c0f9026b1256  octave-3.5.90.tar.gz
>
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 18107269 Dec 12 04:17 octave-3.5.90.tar.gz
>
> The snapshot is tagged in the usual way (ss-3-5-90) in the Mercurial
> archive.
>
> 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.
>
> I plan to release Octave 3.6.0 in the next few weeks.  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

build/install/package is fine under cygwin.

One question is the "api-v45+" unchanged versus 3.4.2, is it correct ?

No new failures, but there is a puzzling

>>>>> processing test_system
  ***** test
 tic ();
 sleep (2);
 assert(toc () > 0);
!!!!! test failed
assert (toc () > 0) failed

while

octave:1> tic();sleep(2);toc()
Elapsed time is 2.00112 seconds.

Regards
Marco