Re: Octave 3.5.92 snapshot available for ftp

[marco atzeri]

On 1/6/2012 10:02 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> A new snapshot of Octave is now available from alpha.gnu.org in the
> directory /gnu/octave:
>
>    48481042bdd5f924ccfc983916cd1e16  octave-3.5.92.tar.gz
>
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 17958889 Jan 06 20:55 octave-3.5.92.tar.gz
>
> The snapshot is tagged in the usual way (ss-3-5-92) 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.
>
> Unless there are some serious problems with this snapshot, I would
> like to release it (or something very close to it) as 3.6.0 in the
> next few days.  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

on cygwin, it builds, installs and packages fine.
Also the documentation is not anymore rebuilt.

Still failing when some sparse calls exhaust memory
like
 sprandsym(1e5,0.1)

but it could be a cygwin only problem.

Regards
Marco