Re: release 3.0.2

[Thomas Weber]

Am Montag, den 18.08.2008, 20:58 -0400 schrieb Bill Denney:
> Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > I'm announcing Octave release 3.0.2.
> >
> > It is available either from the official repo
> > http://hg.tw-math.de/release-3-0-x
> >
> > or using the source and diff tarballs at
> > http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~hajej2am/ulozna/octave-3.0.2/
> >
> > reports from building are most welcome.
> Hi Jaroslav,
> 
> How do you plan to handle website updates?  I can help with this one,
> but I'm not sure if I can generally be sure to help with all Also, will
> the tarballs be moved to
> ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/octave-3.0.2.tar.gz ?  I ask because
> it's important to make sure that the website has the most recent releases.

I would also prefer to have the tarballs on the normal Octave page.
There are several reasons:

a) Bandwidth: The GNU servers are mirrored all around the world. In case
someone wonders: tw-math.de has a limit of 200 GB per month. We are
currently using less than 1% of that, but if it remains the only place
where stable updates are available, this will surely rise.

b) Easy downloads: Hm, I wanted to write something about easy downloads
here, but it seems the web-frontend actually provides that:

http://hg.tw-math.de/release-3-0-x
=> tags
=> release-3-0-2
=> bz2 in upper row

Or, in short:
http://hg.tw-math.de/release-3-0-x/archive/5937bae20efc.tar.bz2

Hmm, anybody in need of tar.gz archives?

        Thomas