Re: A bug related to Octave installation on a P4 machine...

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-May-2005, Muthiah Annamalai wrote:

| Hello there!
| Try installing a later version of Octave, if that
| helps.
| I have Octave 2.1.49 on a Win XP machine, and it works

2.1.49 is also quite old (about two years).  MANY things have been
improved over that time.

I would like to see things change so that installing Octave on Windows
systems is much easier, so that all users of Octave on Windows systems
could have the latest version without much pain and suffering.

As I posted just a few days ago, I think we can make this happen if we
build binary packages for Cygwin and arrange for them to become part
of the core Cygwin binary package archive.

I can help get the process started (I have some scripts for building
Cygwin packages of Octave to get you going), but I can't be the one to
build and upload packages on a regular basis because I simply do not
have the time to do it.

As I have said a number of times on this list, it won't happen unless
someone (or some group) volunteers to do the work.  The people who
want Octave to improve on Windows systems will have to get involved.

jwe



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