[OctDev] release?

[Paul K. <pki...@us...>]

Since the current octave-forge release doesn't work with the
new octave, I believe we need an early release.  Please
post your updates.

I've tested against 2.1.44 on Windows, but not 2.1.43 or
linux.  Anyone know whether we are still 2.1.43 compatible?
Or 2.1.40 for that matter.

I've put together some release notes in the file
RELEASE-NOTES. I'm trying a new format --- please
let me know if there is  enough detail to be useful.
Etienne, Alois --- please give a brief summary of what you
have done to VRML, NaN and TSA and post the results.

Things not included in this release:

* Testing!!!  We have to start doing better tests --- some
   of the recent octave changes break script files.  E.g.,
   global now defines an initial value of empty if none is
   assigned, which breaks all the colormap functions.
* Dispatch: now that we have a dispatch mechanism, it
   would be nice to make sparse/symbolic look more like
   builtin types by allowing users to use, e.g., find instead
   of spfind.
* Commands: octave has mark_as_command so that
   functions such as grid and edit can be turned into
   commands which don't need parenthesis and quotes
   around their arguments.

Comments?

Paul Kienzle
pki...@us...