Re: 3.6.1 release

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-Feb-2012, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

| 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.

Rik checked in a change that I think fixes these and I updated the web
page with the NEWS for 3.6.

| 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):

During the two release cycles when the functions are deprecated but
remain in Octave, I think they give warnings that point to the
alternative functions.  But yes, I suppose it could still be useful to
list the alternatives in the news file for those people who are
upgrading from very old versions.

I updated my announcement slightly.  Are there any more suggestions
before I send this out?

  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.  Please see
  http://octave.org/NEWS-3.6.html for a list of significant user-visible
  changes in this release.

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