Re: R: octave 3.0.4 rc5

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

I vote to John's opinion.  Release of current style will cause confusions in 
users.

I think that octave-3.0.3 works well in usual use so that the release of 3.0.4 
is not required of
immediate release.

Regards

Tatsuro

--- "John W. Eaton"  wrote:

> On 24-Feb-2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
> 
> | On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Marco Atzeri <address@hidden> wrote:
> | >
> | > --- Mar 24/2/09, Jaroslav Hajek ha scritto:
> | >
> | >> Da: Jaroslav Hajek
> | >> Oggetto: octave 3.0.4 rc5
> | >> A: "octave maintainers mailing list" <address@hidden>
> | >> Data: Marted 24 febbraio 2009, 08:21
> | >> hi all,
> | >>
> | >> the octave 3.0.4 rc5 tarballs available at the usual
> | >> location:
> | >> http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~hajej2am/ulozna/octave/
> | >>
> | >> Hopefully this is the final RC, because I think the regular
> | >> builders
> | >> reported success even with RC4; still, a couple of
> | >> important fixes
> | >> were added so I recommend trying again if possible.
> | >>
> | >> 3.0.4 will almost surely close the 3.0.x series.
> | >>
> | >> cheers
> | >>
> | >> --
> | >> RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
> | >
> | > Hi Jaroslav,
> | > On cygwin all test are passed.
> | >
> | > The issue on plots reported by Tatsuro
> | > 
> https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2009-February/010946.html
> | >
> | > is still present.
> | >
> | > Regards
> | > Marco
> | >
> | 
> | I see. I haven't noticed a fix in that thread, however, and I don't
> | know how to solve the issue; so unless someone supplies a fix very
> | quickly, this will stay unfixed in 3.0.4.
> 
> Please don't release 3.0.4 with this bug.  It can be exposed with
> something as simple as
> 
>   subplot(111);
>   clf
>   plot ([1,2], [2,3]);
> 
> With a freshly built copy of Octave from the release-3-0-x archive, I
> see
> 
>   octave:1>   subplot(111);
>   octave:2>   clf
>   octave:3>   plot ([1,2], [2,3]);
>   error: axes: expecting argument to be axes handle
>   error: evaluating if command near line 46, column 5
>   error: evaluating if command near line 30, column 3
>   error: called from `axes' in file 
> `/home/jwe/src/octave-release-3-0-x/scripts/plot/axes.m'
>   error: axes: expecting argument to be axes handle
>   error: evaluating if command near line 46, column 5
>   error: evaluating if command near line 30, column 3
>   error: called from `axes' in file 
> `/home/jwe/src/octave-release-3-0-x/scripts/plot/axes.m'
>   error: called from `plot' in file 
> `/home/jwe/src/octave-release-3-0-x/scripts/plot/plot.m'
> 
> Removing the call to subplot results in a different error:
> 
>   octave:1>   clf
>   error: delete: expecting argument to be a filename or graphics handle
>   error: evaluating if command near line 32, column 5
>   error: evaluating if command near line 31, column 3
>   error: called from `delete' in file
> `/home/jwe/src/octave-release-3-0-x/scripts/miscellaneous/delete.m'
>   error: called from `clf' in file 
> `/home/jwe/src/octave-release-3-0-x/scripts/plot/clf.m'
>   octave:1>   plot ([1,2], [2,3]);
> 
> So I think it is HIGHLY likely that this will be noticed by someone...
> 
> jwe
> 
> 


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