Re: Let's try again: octave 3.8.1 release candidate 3 available for ftp

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

Ubuntu 13.10 amd64

Summary:

  PASS     11487
  FAIL         0
  XFAIL        7
  SKIPPED     36

gui works fine.



On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:23 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> The third release candidate of Octave 3.8.1 really is available now
> from alpha.gnu.org in the directory /gnu/octave:
>
>   5ad1c510b5293726b111ed4838f637cb octave-3.8.1-rc3.tar.gz  (md5sum)
>
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 3003 3002 20586726 Feb 17 17:09 octave-3.8.1-rc3.tar.gz
>
> Yes, this is rc3 though you probably didn't know about rc1 and rc2.
> Those were not announced because I made a few mistakes creating them
> that ended up being public (on alpha.gnu.org and pushed to the
> savannah hg archive) I couldn't delete them.  And then uploading rc3
> failed the first time, but not before the upload system recorded some
> info about the transfer.  Then when I tried again, it complained about
> uploading the same signature file twice.  And then I failed to notice that
> the most recent file on alpha was still rc1, not rc3.  Ugh.  I think
> it is correct now.
>
> Please help make the 3.8.1 release a success by building from this
> release candidate and reporting any problems.
>
> 3.8.1-rc3 is now the default build for mxe-octave.
>
> jwe