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changeset 12746:07188dbaf89a stable
maint: minor update to NEWS file
* NEWS: minor fix in binary incompatibility note.
author | John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> |
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date | Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:33:44 -0400 |
parents | 343eca0298d0 |
children | 901d466ee55a |
files | NEWS |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,15 +5,15 @@ ** IMPORTANT note about binary incompatibility in this release: - The original goal was to ensure binary compatibility for all 3.4.x - releases but this is impossible for the 3.4.1 release due to a bug - in the way shared libraries were built in Octave 3.4.0. Because of - this bug, .oct files built for Octave 3.4.0 must be recompiled - before they will work with Octave 3.4.1. + Binary compatibility for all 3.4.x releases was originally planned, + but this is impossible for the 3.4.1 release due to a bug in the way + shared libraries were built in Octave 3.4.0. Because of this bug, + .oct files built for Octave 3.4.0 must be recompiled before they + will work with Octave 3.4.1. Given that there would be binary incompatibilities with shared - libraries going from Octave 3.4.0 to 3.4.1, we also made the - following incompatible changes in this release: + libraries going from Octave 3.4.0 to 3.4.1, the following + incompatible changes were also made in this release: * The Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library is now required to build Octave. @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ subdirectories of $libdir instead of $libexecdir. Any future Octave 3.4.x release versions should remain binary - compatible with Octave 3.4.1 as we are now using proper library - versioning as recommended by the libtool manual. + compatible with Octave 3.4.1 as proper library versioning is now + being used as recommended by the libtool manual. ** The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 3.4.1 and will be removed from Octave 3.8 (or whatever version is the second major