Re: Octave 5.2.0 release

[Markus Mützel]

Am 03. Februar 2020 um 19:29 Uhr schrieb "John W. Eaton":
> On 2/3/20 12:37 PM, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
> >
> > If necessary, I will rebuild everything a third time.  But I need some
> > help by jwe to upload the octave tar.gz / .lz / .xz to the official
> > location and by some MXE maintainer to bumb the release-octave.mk to
> > 5.2.0 with the respective checksum.
>
> I uploaded the source files and they should appear on ftp.gnu.org soon.
>
> It should be possible to build the windows binary files and have
> directory names like octave-5.2.0-w64 without having to upload the files
> to ftp.gnu.org first.  The process may not be immediately obvious, but
> you should be able to make the required changes in your local copy of
> mxe-octave and then place the tar file in the local mxe package source
> directory.  Then the mxe-octave Makefile won't attempt to download it
> from ftp.gnu.org if the checksum in the release-octave.mk file matches.
>
> In any case, now that the tar files are uploaded, I'll look at making
> the changes to mxe-octave.

Should we also move the bookmark tagging the release in MXE Octave to that 
changeset?

Markus