Re: Windows install

[Thomas L. Scofield]

Did I leave the impression I was POINTING them to the unstable version?  I did not think so.  Let me say again: I only pointed students to the webpage http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html and left it to them to navigate from there to the appropriate version of Octave for their respective OSes.  When I went through the process myself I downloaded the unstable version (yes, I have contributed to Octave, quite recently in fact, and plan to continue doing so), but I suspect, as was true with the one student whom I quoted, that most will be scared off from an unstable version and select a stable one when their browsing gets them to this page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2888&package_id=40078.

On Sep 9, 2008, at 12:52 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

On  9-Sep-2008, Thomas L. Scofield wrote:

| getting the binary from Octave-forge instead of the cygwin version,  

| grabbing the unstable installer), as my instructions to them were to  

Why are you pointing them to the unstable version?  There were a

number of bugs in 3.1.50 (symbol table things, sub functions not

resolved properly, function handles not resolved properly, assignin

not working properly, etc.).  I strongly recommend using the stable

3.0.x version unless you consider yourself an Octave developer, or you

are just experimenting with the new version to see if it works for

you.

jwe

Thomas L. Scofield

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Associate Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Calvin College

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