> Benjamin Lindner wrote: >> I hope this is the correct place to ask, I loked around the project and >> it seemed the most appropriate list. >> >> I'd like to (finally) contribute binary packages of octave built with >> and bundled with the mingw32 gcc. >> > > Great, I added the release technician flag to your account so you can upload > the binaries, the only question is where and what. I'd also suggest you look > at the "releaseforge" project that is a much better means to upload than > what sourceforge provides.
OK, I took a look at it, and installed the win32 version. But it does not really seem to work - The program just hangs after entering sourceforge username&password. ?? So what's the preferred way to do it via sourceforge's interface? How's that working anyway? - I mean the principle of releases on sourceforge. > > >> I had a look at the download section and found that there are are >> already some package sections. >> Now the questions is how to add the mingw32 binaries into the download >> structure of the project. >> > > The structure will have to be revised. At the moment there is a "Octave > Forge WIndows" section and a section for additional packages. Michael has > started including all packages in the NSI installer and so the additional > packages subsection should go away. I'd therefore suggest having and "Octave > Forge Windows - MSVC" and "Octave Forge Windows - MinGW" section on the > download page. I agree. Who should add the new section? > >> What I'd like to provide is: >> 1) Octave mingw32 binaries >> 2) the corresponding Sources & Patches (Octave and all dependencies >> included) - compliance to GPL etc. >> 3) ATLAS v3.8.1 binaries for some architectures >> >> 1) and 2) should be fairly obvious, I guess. >> > > Supply the source tarball is easy enough, though huge. As for the binaries > and atlas libraries, frankly I'd prefer that the whole lot was wrapped up in > an NSI installer like Michael's package and the appropriate library > installed as needed. OK, I had a look at michael's .nsi installer script and took the basic structure and some features from it and added the octave binaries along with msys+mingw32-gcc+gnuplot+editor and the ATLAS libs into a single installer. This and the same packed in a simple archive along with atlas libs should satisfy both the I-favor-an-installer-users and the no-frills-just-unpack-it-users. > > [snip] > > NSI and a bit of help from Michael :-) In any case I'm not sure you need > all of those ATLAS libraries. I'd probably only keep SSE2 and perhaps SSE3 > libraries as most machines support that and use generic blas for the rest. Yes, I have now generic, SSE, SSE2 and SSE3 libs. This should do it. benjamin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
