Sorry just error correction again >James R. Phillips, who is a maintainer of octave 2.1.73. Pherhaps he >is not working as a maintainer because he has not been made any >respose when I threw a topic of my testing binary of Octave 2.9.12 >on cygwin. > >John W. Eaton, who is a main develper, seems not to like use >undefault complier because octave uses the develop category tools >including gcc for the advanced user tool. (Function can be complied >to specially named dynamic link library *.oct) >He is afraid that the specially prepared complier confuses the user. > >For this reason, James selected the gcc normally prepared. >At that time, there was no other way to build octave on windows so >that even slow binary is meaningful.
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