From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sun Nov 16 21:47:48 2003
Subject: Re: Octave 2.1.51 available for ftp
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: JD Cole <listguy at transientresearch dot com>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 21:47:45 -0600

On 16-Nov-2003, JD Cole <listguy at transientresearch dot com> wrote:

| Would it be possible to throw a CVS tag marking the current release? I 
| know we talked a little about this before, but then seemed to loose 
| sight of it. It might be useful when fixing bugs and looking at changes 
| between versions.

I keep forgetting, probably because having tags is not that important
to me.  But I've made the following change so maybe I will remember
to tag the archive when I make snapshots or releases in the future.

jwe


Index: octMakefile.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/octave/octMakefile.in,v
retrieving revision 1.191
diff -u -r1.191 octMakefile.in
--- octMakefile.in	15 Nov 2003 02:16:47 -0000	1.191
+++ octMakefile.in	17 Nov 2003 03:45:54 -0000
 at @ -186,6 +186,9 @@
 	rm -rf `cat .fname`
 	gzip --best `cat .fname`.tar
 	rm -f .fname
+	echo "*******************"
+	echo "Tag the CVS archive"
+	echo "*******************"
 .PHONY: dist
 
 # Rules for making a snapshot.