Octave 3.3.90 snapshot available for ftp

[John W. Eaton]

A new snapshot of Octave is now available from alpha.gnu.org in the
directory /gnu/octave (note this is different from the location of
previous snapshots):

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  5311dbb3c1f397f2587aaa911bd90c60  octave-3.3.55-3.3.90.patch.gz
  36e915de4b24fd5d988a5885d82cc795  octave-3.3.90.tar.bz2
  fcc65f2c36263ee937eab78d2692e49a  octave-3.3.90.tar.gz

  -rw-r--r-- 1 1003 65534  1026007 Jan 22 21:23 octave-3.3.55-3.3.90.patch.bz2
  -rw-r--r-- 1 1003 65534  1229668 Jan 22 21:23 octave-3.3.55-3.3.90.patch.gz
  -rw-r--r-- 1 1003 65534 13941999 Jan 22 21:26 octave-3.3.90.tar.bz2
  -rw-r--r-- 1 1003 65534 16582358 Jan 22 21:29 octave-3.3.90.tar.gz

The snapshot is tagged in the usual way (ss-3-3-90) 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-2009-09-12 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 gnuplot is still 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 grahpics toolkit with the
command

  graphics_toolkit ("fltk");

Plots should mostly work, but there are still some problems.  If you
would like to see these graphics features improve at a more rapid
pace, please help with implementing the things you miss most.  We
would like to have "rundemos plot" working correctly before the next
major release.

Even if you have been building Octave regularly from the Mercurial
archive, it would help if you could build from the snapshot and report
any problems.

jwe