Re: how to install OCTAVE in windows XP

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 4-Jan-2006, Quentin Spencer wrote:
>
> > That certainly seems to be what people want. Even with an up-to-date 
> > cygwin release out there, downloads of the 2 1/2 year old 2.1.50 
> > windows binary hit an all-time high in November, according to the 
> > download stats page:
>
> But doesn't this version also depend on the Cygwin DLL?  So people don't 
> really care whether it is Cygwin based.  They just don't want to know 
> about it.

But what does it mean for the version to depend on the DLL?  I think what 
people want is to download an installable "setup.exe" or somesuch that 
they can simply click on a couple of times.  They don't want instructions 
and they don't want to have to download multiple programs from multiple 
web sites.  I don't think DLLs mean anything to most of these people.

Maybe the issue with DLLs is that installing a stand-alone Octave that 
requires the Cygwin DLL will mess up the system if Cygwin is installed 
either before or after the Octave stand-alone is installed.  Is that it?

Mike



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