Re: GNU Octave 3.6.2 Released

[Sergei Steshenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
> To: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
> Cc: John W. Eaton <address@hidden>; octave help mailing list <address@hidden>
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:23 PM
> Subject: Re: GNU Octave 3.6.2 Released
> 
> On 31 May 2012 15:50, Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden> wrote:
>>  Could please anyone point me to the exact lines in the file which
>>  specifically describe changes in octave-3.6.2 ?
> 
> The kindergarteners that make the software you are for some reason
> using don't actually record minor changes in the NEWS file, which only
> records important changes between major releases. Minor revisions are
> just small bugfixes. If you care to see what those small bug fixes
> are, you can clone the hg repo and do "hg log -b stable".
> 
> For your convenience, one such kindergartener has done just that and
> attached the results since 3.6.1.
> 
> HTH,
> - Jordi G. H.
> 

Here is a quick diff I made (in addition to reading the file attached by Jordi 
in the previous Email in this thread) :

"
address@hidden:~/junk> diff octave-3.6.2/scripts/pkg/pkg.m 
/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/build/octave-3.6.1/scripts/pkg/pkg.m.original
1754,1755c1754
<             error ("The keyword `%s' of the package `%s' has an empty value",
<                     keyword, desc.name);
---
>             error ("the keyword %s has an empty value", desc.keywords{end});
address@hidden:~/junk>     
".

I.e. it's the only difference I see, which means that essentially 'pkg.m' is as 
buggy as it used to be octave-3.6.1.

If one wants to use a less buggy (at least, for me) version, he/she can look up 
my message with

problem with local packages taking precedence over global and (an apparent) 
solution

subject (the message was sent on Monday, May 21, 2012) and take the attachment 
from that message. Probably adding the change represented by the above 'diff' 
output.

Regards,
  Sergei.