On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Benjamin Lindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I see that Michael set a high refence level with his installer :)
> The version I have now is not (yet) so complex.
> I have a package that contains Octave, an Editor, Gnuplot and mingw's
> gcc along with a core msys envionment. Ah yes, and ATLAS libraries for
> some architectures and the installer detecting the appropriate versino
> at install-time.

Talking about gnuplot, do you also use the patch I wrote to
add a console mode? If not, does your gnuplot works correctly
with octave (for instance when dealing with images).

> It does not contain pre-compiled octave-forge packages.
> To be frank - I had not planned to include them (yet).
> The idea was that shipping octave with gcc&msys would not require to
> include compiled forge-packages in the installer - this would save me
> some work :)

Sometimes, the problem with octave-forge packages is not to
compile the package itself, but the dependencies. For instance
the symbolic or video packages. In such case, providing
pre-compiled packages makes user's life easier.

Michael.

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