Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki

[Paul Kienzle]

On Apr 14, 2007, at 12:06 PM, mike gelfer wrote:

> Dear Paul:
> I would like to ask you how to install add-on packages under windows? 
> I have octave 2.1.73 for windows but I want to use add-on packages. is 
> it possible?

I've been out of the loop for a while on Windows builds, so I will 
leave this to the wisdom of the list.

From my own experience, the easiest way to use add-on packages is to 
install octave via cygwin.  This approach doesn't always work, 
sometimes ending in a non-working system after 100's of Mb of downloads 
(this happened a couple of times but I never figured out why).  
Patching gnuplot so that it uses the windows terminal and doesn't drag 
in all of X11 might help.

        - Paul