Re: Octave 5.2.0 release

[John W. Eaton]

On 2/3/20 2:42 AM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 12:52:15 +0900, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
> > @Mike, jwe:  Do you run Ubuntu 18.04 or Debian 10 for your Octave
> > development?  I want to reinstall the build server to obtain more
> > reproducibility = less pain for Octave 6.1.
>
> I use Debian testing for my development, but that's not exactly the path
> of least pain :)

I also use Debian testing, typically updated at least every few months.

If we want to have full control of the versions of the build tools, then 
we could use the native build option in mxe-octave to create a tarball 
source distribution file from a specific mercurial revision.  That would 
give us a specific set of versions of the most important build tools, 
also built from source.

jwe