Re: TR: [sciclub] Scilab news

[pkienzle]

I've removed the fork calls from the octave-2.1.50 distribution on
octave-forge (http://octave.sf.net).  I didn't like waiting ;-)

I'm using it successfully on WindowsME, and I believe it works on
Windows98.  IIRC, the patches have been applied upstream, so
any Octave 2.1.50 or above should work fine.

Paul Kienzle
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> The headaches are not Octave's fault. Cygwin doesn't work well on
> Windows9X/ME. I had problems with a lot of other programs that are based
> on it. There's a long standing issue with fork() that looks like will
> never be fixed.
> 
> Given that all our computers are on Windows98 and ME we had no choice
> but to drop Octave for Windows. Next year we'll try to get the teachers
> and the students to use Linux, but it's going to be pretty hard. There
> has been some "active resistance" against Linux that forced us to choose
> SciLab, at least until the issues with these particular versions of
> windows are solved, or until we upgrade our software (that will be an
> extremely cold day in hell).
> 
> On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 08:28, Doug Stewart wrote:
> > What are the Headaches?  We should fix them.
> > Doug Stewart
> > 
> > 
> > Agustin Barto wrote:
> > 
> > >We had a great two year run working with Octave after the local
> > >authorities refused the funding for Matlab. Next year we'll be switching
> > >to SciLab (the main reason is that the Windows version of Octave is
> > >giving us a lot of headaches). This year we asked around and found out
> > >that not only the introductory courses on programming were based on
> > >Octave, but also numerical methods, some algebras and some advanced
> > >electronics courses too (All of these used Matlab in the past). This was
> > >much more than we expected.
> > >
> > >On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 18:40, Raymond E. Rogers wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > >>$800 !!!!!  At the insistence of my boss we just bought MatLab and a few 
> > >>packages for my work; for a grand total of about $8000.
> > >>I tried to explain to him other options, Octave, J, SciLab; but various 
> > >>others are using Matlab so he went ahead.
> > >>
> > >>Ray
> > >>
> > >>Laurent Jacques wrote:
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >>>On Friday 28 November 2003 21:36, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > >>>      
> > >>>
> > >>>We run Octave but also Matlab in my lab (in a Belgian university) and 
> > >>>this 
> > >>>year we had to add just one user to our Matlab network licence. 
> > >>>Mathworks 
> > >>>refused to sell this separately but instead we had to buy a complete new 
> > >>>Matlab distribution (the same that we had) with a special new license 
> > >>>file 
> > >>>allowing the new number of simultaneous users.
> > >>>All that costs around 800 $ ! 
> > >>>
> > >>>But we have to be happy, for industrial use it is worst.
> > >>>
> > >>>Laurent.
> > >>>      
> > >>>
> > >
> > >
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