Re: Octave 3.6.4-rc1 release candidate available for ftp

[Thorsten Liebig]

Am 05.01.2013 08:22, schrieb Susi Lehtola:
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 16:04:30 -0500
> "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > The second release candidate of Octave 3.6.4 is now available from
> > alpha.gnu.org in the directory /gnu/octave:
> >
> >    a8261dbeb3fa23c575c5c905c6770cc0  octave-3.6.4-rc1.tar.gz  (md5sum)
> >
> >    -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 18352066 Jan 03 20:36 octave-3.6.4-rc1.tar.gz
> >
> > Please help make the 3.6.4 release a success by building from this
> > release candidate and reporting any problems.  We could especially use
> > reports for Windows and OS X systems.
> Hi,
>
>
> the directory listing shows
>
> -rw-r--r--    1 3003     3002     18352066 Jan 03 20:36 octave-3.6.4-rc1.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r--    1 3003     3002           72 Jan 03 20:36 
> octave-3.6.4-rc1.tar.gz.sig
> -rw-r--r--    1 3003     3002     19844518 Jan 03 01:17 octave-3.7.1.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r--    1 3003     3002           72 Jan 03 01:17 octave-3.7.1.tar.gz.sig
>
> I'm guessing that the 3.7.1 tarball shouldn't be there, as even 3.7.0
> hasn't been released yet..?

The 3.7.1 is kind of the bleeding edge alpha version with the new GUI 
and other stuff... nothing to be released any time soon and then I 
think/hope it is going to be a 4.0.0 version some day...

regards
Thorsten