Octave 3.3.55 snapshot available for ftp

[John W. Eaton]

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):

  97cda5cefde8fe55bf53833b8c12c30d  octave-3.3.54-3.3.55.patch.bz2
  2bda310a26740ccf00f829e54ef14ca0  octave-3.3.54-3.3.55.patch.gz
  10506a43e80d7e46921b5a2520f5f15a  octave-3.3.55.tar.bz2
  9aacd9d76abbc6b5179c98e4a30874a2  octave-3.3.55.tar.gz

  -rw-r--r-- 1 1003 65534   702872 Jan 15 10:04 octave-3.3.54-3.3.55.patch.bz2
  -rw-r--r-- 1 1003 65534   871114 Jan 15 10:04 octave-3.3.54-3.3.55.patch.gz
  -rw-r--r-- 1 1003 65534 14075707 Jan 15 10:07 octave-3.3.55.tar.bz2
  -rw-r--r-- 1 1003 65534 16597174 Jan 15 10:10 octave-3.3.55.tar.gz

The snapshot is tagged in the usual way (ss-3-3-55) 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 the gnuplot backend is 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 backend with the command

  backend ("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.

jwe