Re: new versions of Octave (was "How to print plots on a printer?")

[John W. Eaton]

On  5-May-2005, Mike Miller wrote:

| Looking in the NEWS file, I see this...
| 
| "Summary of changes for version 2.1.x:"
| 
| Etc., with no indication of when things were added (no date, no version 
| number) and no mention, that I could find, of N-d arrays.

The NEWS file has not been updated in a long time, and at this point I
have no plans to update it for the eventual 3.0 release.

| The ChangeLog file lists dates but not version numbers.  I don't know if 
| there is a file that lists version numbers with their release dates.

The src/ChangeLog file has entries for most changes to src/version.h.

| Do you mean that we have to download the source and find the ChangeLog 
| file in the source tree?  I think it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a link 
| directly to the ChangeLog file.

There are links to two web interfaces to the CVS archive on the
download page of the octave.org site.

| So I don't believe there is a way for users to track changes and see which 
| versions have what functionality.  That kind of record can be helpful when 
| you want to find out if some research using Octave Version N.X.Y had a 
| certain bug or whatever.

Yes, this would be useful, but again, is a question of resources.  It
would be useful if someone would like to volunteer to maintain such a
list, or maintain some kind of NEWS file but I'm unlikely to do that
myself.

jwe



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