Re: 3.6.1 release

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 02/24/2012 09:44 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 24-Feb-2012, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>
> | On 22 February 2012 14:28, John W. Eaton<address@hidden>  wrote:
> |>  On 18-Feb-2012, Rik wrote:
> |>
> |>  | Are we okay to release 3.6.1?
> |
> |>  Sorry for the delay.
> |
> | So are we gonna have a release party or what? I'm still saving the
> | champagne from the 3.6.0 party we missed.
>
> Does the following look OK as a release announcement?

Looks great!

At http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-3.6.html

1) Typo "fucntion has bbeen recoded" [note two typos...and don't say 
this out loud in mixed company]

2) Search the page for "cellstr input".  Sometimes "cellstr input" 
appears and sometimes "cellstr inputs" appears, but often it seems just 
the singular 'input' is appropriate.

3) For the deprecated functions, perhaps alternate recommended function 
could be included because the functions won't be present to return 
recommended alternates anymore.  I.e. (the ? I don't know about, e.g., 
str2mat really isn't something I used often, cell strings work better):

    The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.2 and have been
    removed from Octave 3.6.

      Deprecated           Recommend
                           Alternate
      ----------           ---------
      create_set           unique
      dmult                diag(A)*B
      iscommand            -
      israwcommand         -
      lchol                chol (...,'lower')
      loadimage            ?
      mark_as_command      -
      mark_as_rawcommand   -
      spatan2              atan2
      spchol               chol
      spchol2inv           chol2inv
      spcholinv            cholinv
      spcumprod            cumprod
      spcumsum             cumsum
      spdet                det
      spdiag               sparse (diag (...))
      spfind               find
      sphcat               horzcat
      spinv                inv
      spkron               kron
      splchol              chol (...,'lower')
      split                char (strsplit (s, t))
      splu                 lu
      spmax                max
      spmin                min
      spprod               prod
      spqr                 qr
      spsum                sum
      spsumsq              sumsq
      spvcat               vertcat
      str2mat              ?
      unmark_command       -
      unmark_rawcommand    -




>    To: octave help mailing list<address@hidden>, address@hidden
>    Subject: GNU Octave 3.6.1 Released
>    From: "John W. Eaton"<address@hidden>
>
>    The Octave developers are pleased to announce the release of GNU
>    Octave 3.6.1.  This version is a major new release.
>
>    The source code for Octave 3.6.1 is available for download at:
>
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> jwe