On 3/1/2012 5:31 AM, c. wrote: > > On 1 Mar 2012, at 03:47, Alois Schlögl wrote: > >> For how long did Windows and Mac users > > actually I believe Jordi's comment is more correct for the windows binary > than > for the Mac OS ones (the .app bundle as well as the fink and macports > packages) > which does not include any pre-installed OF packages with it. > In general I think that if pkg.m on windows were fully fuctional (I don't know > about this as I don't use windows), it would be better to also strip the > packages > from the windows installer. If this is done then users who install NaN will be > those who know they need it and are happy about what it does, while those who > don't > care about NA and NaN want even notice it exists. > > Can some windows user explain why it is not convenient to let users install > OF packages > separately from Octave? > > c.
to install something from source they need the compiler and all the libs. And also in binary form, the dependencies are a mess. My 2c, no package installed with "autoload" when deploying binary, I remember we already discussed/proposed such solution, and I always implemented it on cygwin. If my cygwin users want to use NaN they need to install the "octave-forge" bundle package plus type (or add in their script) "pkg load nan" and there is a long list of warning..... so they should not be surprised of any consequence Regards Marco ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
