Re: Octave 6.0.90 test release available on alpha.gnu.org

[John W. Eaton]

On 8/27/20 10:30 AM, Markus Mützel wrote:

> Thanks for the first release candidate for Octave 6.1.
>
> I used the installer to install Octave and installed it at its default location 
> on Windows 10 2004.
> Results of "__run_test_suite__":
> Summary:
>
>    PASS                            16009
>    FAIL                                0
>    XFAIL (reported bug)               29
>    SKIP (missing feature)             52
>    SKIP (run-time condition)          45
>
> Looks good to me. :-)

I also ran the tests on a Windows 10 system with similar results (no 
tests marked FAIL, at least).

> Should we tag the hg ids in the Octave and MXE Octave repositories? If yes, 
> which tag names?

I tagged the release in the Octave sources: 
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/b12fd6ee728f

For mxe-octave, I only see tags for previous releases, not release 
candidates.  But we could start tagging them.  How about this? 
https://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/rev/6bbd4df61efc

jwe