Octave 2.1.47 available for ftp

[John W. Eaton]

Octave 2.1.46 is now available for ftp from ftp.octave.org in the
directory /pub/octave/bleeding-edge:

  -rw-r--r--  1 506  103  4720192 May  3 02:06 octave-2.1.47.tar.gz
  -rw-r--r--  1 506  103  3693094 May  3 02:06 octave-2.1.47.tar.bz2
  -rw-r--r--  1 506  103    66507 May  3 02:15 octave-2.1.46-2.1.47.patch.gz
  -rw-r--r--  1 506  103    59508 May  3 02:15 octave-2.1.46-2.1.47.patch.bz2

The big change since 21.1.46 is that Octave no longer includes the
entire kpathsearch library.  Instead, I've extracted the kpathsearch
code that Octave needs and placed it all inside one file in liboctave,
which is now included in pathsearch.cc with all the kpathsearch
functions static inside that file.  I've also converted the functions
that we do need to use the C++ string and other STL classes as much as
possible (no calls to malloc now).  I hope that this will eliminate
the potential for memory leaks that have been a problem with this code
in the past.  I also hope that it will be easier to adapt this smaller
piece of code to the specialized types of searches that Octave needs
(for example, Matlab-compatible private functions)

As always, if your favorite bug is still not fixed, please let me know
about it. 

Thanks,

jwe

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