I also read the rest of this thread about recreating the tarball or not
because of bugs. I here agree with Soren - there are so many platforms that
we try to support all at once - has there ever been one Octave tarball where
no bug and no missing feature was found after it was released? Further, on
every platform we have several choices of using the actual 3.0.2 version or
3.0.1 or 3.0.0, eg. Octave.app 3.0.1 has the bug that the -path option from
command line never worked - the user has the choice to find a workaround
from command line for 3.0.1 or he still goes on with 3.0.0 and later checks
if 3.0.2 solves his problem. I vote for "to include the fix for the 3.0.3
release that you want to make at the end of September"...
Thanks for the effort. I also don't think that releases should be
delayed over and over due to bugs. But I decided to include this
trivial fix because it does not actually invalidate builds already
made and it was really omitted by accident.
Next time, I shall announce a "call for builds" state before actually
creating the release.