Re: Octave 3.1.52 available for ftp

[Michael Goffioul]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:08 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> A new snapshot of Octave is now available for ftp from ftp.octave.org in the
> directory /pub/octave/bleeding-edge:
>
>  52a5945e792574ffd7519f7d48f370dc  octave-3.1.52.tar.bz2
>  25e0d448fe4c103495982fc95765e700  octave-3.1.52.tar.gz
>  2a12ef2bd5721b917c788a3039d93192  octave-3.1.51-3.1.52.patch.bz2
>  18086ea4fb815082cc1e0038493c7d76  octave-3.1.51-3.1.52.patch.gz
>
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 506 1012 10742307 Feb 09 21:56 octave-3.1.52.tar.bz2
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 506 1012 12436955 Feb 09 21:58 octave-3.1.52.tar.gz
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 506 1012  1306276 Feb 09 21:59 octave-3.1.51-3.1.52.patch.bz2
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 506 1012  1620539 Feb 09 21:59 octave-3.1.51-3.1.52.patch.gz
>
> The snapshot is tagged in the usual way (ss-3-1-52) in the Mercurial
> archive and will be marked as the "development" version of
> Octave on the download page of the Octave web site.
>
> Please remember that these snapshots are provided for testing
> purposes.  I do not consider them to be Octave releases.  If people
> think there will be confusion because of the version number, then we
> can add a notice to the Octave startup message.  Changing the version
> number to something like ss-2008-07-21 is not an option because it
> will cause trouble with typical version comparison functions (for
> example, that are sometimes used for building Octave Forge packages).
>
> This snapshot includes the new experimental OpenGL-based graphics
> code, but the gnuplot backend is used by default.  Assuming you have
> all the required libraries and have built the OpenGL bits properly,
> you should be able to switch to the new backend with the commands
>
>  input_event_hook ("__fltk_redraw__");
>  __init_fltk__ ();
>  set (0, "defaultfigure__backend__", "fltk");
>
> I'm sure there will be a simpler way to do this once the new backend
> code is more mature.

Yes, using the "backend" function, which is part of octave now.

Michael.