Re: Octave and Windows

[Paul Thomas]

Ole,

The necessary bits of Cygwin are included; 59 files in /bin, including
gnuplot, and its own, separate registry entry; it seems to me that this is
as much a native Win32 application as any other.

Maybe this should be subject to performance measurements to see what
overhead the OS interface introduces, rather than judgements of the
aesthetics?  If the overhead can be shown to be small, the maintenance
advantage of a unique build must be overwhelming.

I do not feel that I have enough knowledge to typical usage or, indeed the
"weighed down" parts of the OS to know how to specify such measurements.

Best regards

Paul T

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ole Jacob Hagen" <address@hidden>
To: "Paul Thomas" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: Octave and Windows


> Hi, again.
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that Cygwin is included
> in octave-2.1.50a-inst.exe as well..
>
> Should Octave run in Windows without Cygwin?
> An answer here is very important, since it depends on how we shall make
> Oplot.
> Cygwin or Native Win32 application, it already supports Linux.
>
> Any comments?
>
> John? Andy? Paul?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ole J.
>
> Paul Thomas wrote:
>
> > Ole Jacob Hagen wrote:
> >
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> Is there any plans to make Octave work in Windows without Cygwin?
> >> What is the progression of this project?
> >
> >
> >
> >
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/octave/octave-2.1.50a-inst.exe?download
> > already has the property that you are enquiring about and more than
> > satisfies people who want nothing more than a free M****b to run under
> > Windows.  It does, however, presently lack the GNU development tools
> > and so extensibility, using mkoctfile.  The installation is brutally
> > simple and works every time.  I have not seen any performance
> > degradation running under Windows or Cygwin/Windows, relative to Linux
> > on the same machine, although I confess that I have not thrashed the
> > interface to the OS.
> >
> > It strikes me that a script to automatically pull the equivalent to
> > 2.1.50a out of the current release and package it up in a Windows
> > installer would be an excellent idea.   It would also be nice to have
> > development packages and the various add-on libraries bundled up as
> > well - see Paul Kinzle's wiki
> > http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?WindowsPackageDesign .
> >
> >>
> >> Should this be something to strive for?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Ole J.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>