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RE: More on Octave 2.1.36 for Windows
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abarto |
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RE: More on Octave 2.1.36 for Windows |
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Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:23:06 -0300 |
Excelent!
I really don't want to make this a "project". It's just something I made so the
local teachers
don't have an excuse to install illegal copies of Matlab. Everything I need is
already on my
package. The things I've been adding was just "extras" that I felt were
necessary to make it a
little more useful. I won't add more features to it (other that the usual
optimizations).
The only feature that would be nice to add is more Matlab compatibility but I'm
not a Matlab
user so I can't do much about it.
On 22 Aug 2002 at 19:42, Julian DeMarchi wrote:
> Just to make it public, I'm 95% through and in the testing stage with a new
> Windows installation based on Inno Setup. I would not be surprised if any of
> you out there thought however that Matlinks support for Windows-based Octave
> was dead, since this is long overdue.
>
> It's quite serendipitous that Agustin released his own new-and-much-improved
> version based on the NSIS setup compiler. This should see you through the
> interim and perhaps beyond. I'm actually hoping that this is the case,
> because with a stopgap in place there may be more time to add some of
the features I'm still coming up with, including the ability to select
installation components (to reduce download & install time) and alternatives
(exempli gratia, different plotters).
>
> But considering circumstances I may go ahead with short-term release of a
> beta with the basics. This includes selection of the installation directory,
> and only optionally installs CygWin if you don't already have it on your
> system.
>
> Keep the suggestions coming. And thanks for the bootstrap Agustin.
>
> Julian DeMarchi
> www.matlinks.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Agustin Barto [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 6:01 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: More on Octave 2.1.36 for Windows
>
>
> I've been collecting the your responses to my "cry for help". The most common
> requests were:
>
> 1) To be able to choose the installation directory.
> 2) To change the icon.
> 3) Keep an eye con some problems with gnuplot for win32.
>
> This is what I am right now:
>
> 1) Nsis can handle the selection of the directory and the modiciation of the
> registry according to the user request. Cygwin has no problem with spaces on
> the directory's name (in my case: "C:\Program Files\GNU Octave 2.1.36\" and
> "C:\Archivos de Programa\GNU Octave 2.1.36"). The problem is that Octave
> thinks that there are escape characters on that string so I can't use nsis to
> generate the correct octaverc. My options are
> * Make a program to translate the paths and generate all the directory
> dependant files. (Peace of cake. I can do this in a couple of minutes and
> call it from within the nsis installer).
> * To use another installer generator. It'll have to be able to translate the
> \s to /s.
>
> 2) I did a couple of prototypes with the Gimp last night. I still have to
> scale them and reduce the palette. Any contributions on this matter
> are welcome.
>
> 3) Some people told me that they had problems with the win32 version of
> gnuplot. I tried to recreate the situations and the problems didn't appear.
> Just in case I'll try to recompile gnuplot (the cygwin and the win32
> versions).
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I'll send a new message as soon as I have this lil
> problems solved.
>
>
>
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