Rene Teerwill wrote: > Hello! > > The playrec-function is not part of the windows-installer even though > this is claimed on various download sites e.g. on > http://www.softpedia.com/get/Science-CAD/Octave.shtml
I believe it has been mentioned before, but here it goes again: What somebody on some website completely unrelated to octave may or may not claim with respect to what's or what's not inluded in octave is - frankly - irrelevant. > In the meantime I've learned it has been part of octave in version 3.0.3 > Is there a plan to add it to the distribution again? I took a look at http://www.playrec.co.uk/ and from the documentation there I gather they require both msvc and SDK headers to compile playrec. To be included in a binary distribution, the source code has to be compatible to a GNU license and compilable with gnu gcc. There are legal issues with distributing binaries compiled with msvc under a GNU license. This has been already been discussed on the mailing list, so I won't elaborate on this again. So requiring msvc means: no, it will not be bundled in the distribution. I'm not sure on how the SDK headers fit into the GNU license. Would you be willing to test if and how playrec can be compiled with the mingw compiler shipped with octave/mingw32? benjamin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
