Updated: octave-3.8.2-1

[Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

New versions 3.8.2-1 of

   octave,
   octave-devel,
   octave-doc

are available in the Cygwin distribution:

CHANGES
This is a mainstream bugfix release of 3.8.x
The FLTK Graphics toolkit crash on cygwin has been solved

Full changes:
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-3.8.html

GENERAL 3.8.x NOTE

Main difference from 3.6.x:
there are now 2 octave main binaries
        octave-cli      command line inteface
        octave-gui      graphical interface
        octave          default to CLI version
to run the gui use "octave --force-gui"

for version 3.8.x the CLI version is still the default but very
functional and the default should change in 4.0.x to graphic one.

CYGWIN OCTAVE-FORGE CHANGES
The old monolithical octave-forge package has been split
in individual packages as upstream.

You need to individual install with setup the one you are
looking for.

On octave package, I added on
  /usr/share/octave/site/m/startup/octaverc

a script that will take care to update the global pkg database
  /usr/share/octave/octave_packages

any time packages are added or removed.

KNOW BUGS on CYGWIN
1) If the user have no admin authorization, the creation and update of
  /usr/share/octave/octave_packages
  can fail.
Workaround:
  with a admin user run, from inside octave,
     pkg rebuild -noauto -global
  and from shell
     chmod 666 /usr/share/octave/octave_packages


DESCRIPTION
The GNU Octave language for numerical computations is a (mostly Matlab (R)
compatible) high-level language, primarily intended for numerical
computations.  It provides a convenient command-line interface for solving
linear and nonlinear problems numerically.

HOMEPAGE
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/


Marco Atzeri

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