Re: Improving Octave on Windows systems (was: Re: testing binary of octave-3.3.91 (mingw32) is uploaded)

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

I apologized that my not deep considering distributing the testing binary have 
given confusion on this
time.  However, it is a good chance to consider octave development on windows 
environments.

Although, a number of octave users exist on windows, number of contributers 
inside octave activity for
windows platorm are quite small (Benjamin, Michael and me ( and Macro (Cygwin 
not native windows))) .


I am personally feel glad the many commitments from fork this time.  I could to 
know that a person who
would like to participate to improve octave on windows exists.

I hope that my distribution will a good trigger windows users to consider to 
support improving octave
developments. 

Regards

Tatsuro

--- "John W. Eaton"  wrote:

> On  3-Feb-2011, fork wrote:
> 
> | John W. Eaton <jwe <at> octave.org> writes:
> | 
> | > And again, I don't have a Windows system, and I don't have this
> | > problem on my Debian system, so I think you will have to debug the
> | > problem yourself.
> | 
> | Yeah, well thanks for trying.  I am hoping the other minority of
> | windows users might have an answer.
> 
> Are Windows users really in the minority?  From what I keep hearing,
> Windows is our most important platform because there are so many
> people out there who would just love to be using Octave on Windows
> systems but can't because Octave sucks so much on Windows.  So if we
> could just hurry up and fix everything for them, then they would
> happily be using Octave and maybe contribute something back (well, we
> can hope).
> 
> Sorry, but the problem is that if I'm volunteering my time, I prefer
> to work on the things I'm interested in and that are fun.  I can
> continue to ask people who want to see Octave work better on Windows
> to actually contribute instead of just expecting those of us who are
> not Windows users to do it for them, for free.  But unless more people
> work to improve Octave on Windows systems, then I don't think things
> will change very fast.
> 
> But hey, I've got another idea for you.  I will make Octave work much
> better on Windows systems if you make it worth it for me to so.  If
> you are interested, then we can negotiate the terms.  It won't be
> cheap (I'll have to work with Windows, so I will expect to be
> compensated for the associated pain and suffering) but I guarantee
> that things will be significantly better than they are now.
> 
> jwe
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