Re: Upgrade to 3.0.3?

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:36 PM, gOS <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I have a limited amount of time to decide whether or not my company should do
> this, but I can't find specifically what has changed between 3.0.1 and
> 3.0.3. I'm trying to determine whether the upgrade is desired.
>

The minor versions are, in general, bug-fixing releases, so there
aren't any major new features (depends what you consider a feature)
compared to 3.0.1.
The patches applied can be inspected in the release-3-0-x mercurial
archive hosted at
tp://hg.tw-math.de/release-3-0-x.
Note that I have a couple more patches transplanted but not uploaded
and I intend to create 3.0.4 RC in about a week (unfortunately I was
too busy in December), so you may even wait for that.
A list of new features coming in 3.2.0 is here:
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/dd52e541418b/NEWS


> My only reasoning for NOT doing it is that mkoctfile did not work on my
> machine, a Windows XP machine. I imagine its because I was trying to use the
> same compiler as I was for 3.0.1, but 3.0.3 can't find the msvcr80.dll when
> I try to run my mex files (microsoft visual c++ runtime library (probably
> version 8.0?)).
>
> Before I go off downloading and installing more Microsoft products, could
> you direct me to a change set or list of new features/fixes so that I can
> determine whether the upgrade will fix anything I would be concerned about?
> Much appreciated.

regards

-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz