Re: Mingw Octave-3.4.3 binaries for testing on windows

[PhilipNienhuis]

nitnit wrote:
> 
> 
> PhilipNienhuis wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> - chk_spreadsheet-support is easier, but you'd still have to check if the
>> java package is loaded (!), then infer the directory where the jar files
>> reside during startup of Octave, process this into some string, and feed
>> that string to chk_spreadsheet_support. It's doable, but perhaps too
>> involved.
>> 
>> - You can also have a look at how it is done in the 3.2.4 MinGW binary.
>> Benjamin also put the jars in /lib, and used PKG_ADD to add them to the
>> javaclasspath; have a look in 
>> /libexec/octave/packages/java-1.2.7 
>> to see how he did it.
>> 
>> 
> 
> Benjamin has put all the jars in the bin subdir and it looks OK to me 
> since I have put there other dlls which are required for other OF
> packages.
> 
> Regarding classpath.txt, I can use Benjamin's solution but it requires a
> change in java pkg in order to support the io pkg. It looks more logical
> to me to implement similar lines or alternative chk_spreadsheet_support
> calls as an PKG_ADD of the io pkg.
> 
> This way maintenance of those pkgs will be much more independent.
> 
> What do you think ?
> 

Looks good. 
In fact, this is what I originally had in mind for chk_spreadsheet_support,
before I added problem analysis stuff.

Philip

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