On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Benjamin Lindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since Octave does not require anything else than unpacking it (no shell > extensions, no registry access, no driver installations, ...), well an > installer is nice (I agree) but not essential for usage of the program.
Well, the installer I wrote does a little bit more than simply unpacking: - select components to install, with some auto-detection at startup to select reasonable default config - detect CPU architecture and auto-select ATLAS - write start menu entries and desktop icon - write registry entries to hold the install path: this is used by add-ons installer to know where octave is installed - manage dependencies for octave-forge packages You can of course handle all of this manually, but it just makes user's life easier. Michael. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
