man, 06 06 2011 kl. 21:38 +0100, skrev Andy Buckle:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Søren Hauberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> > søn, 05 06 2011 kl. 19:40 +0100, skrev Andy Buckle:
> >> The NSIS installer for mingw octave 3.2.4 has a bug for some locales.
> >> I made a simple zip, which solves the problem. It is here:
> >>
> >> http://www.mediafire.com/?n259em9ekxuz1z6
> >>
> >> Please can it be uploaded to sourceforge?
> >
> > Sorry for asking stupid questions here, but as I haven't used Windows in
> > the last decade (I'm getting old...), I really am ignorant...
> >
> > Is this complementary to the current installer or does it obsolete it or
> > how does this work? To make this work in Windows, would I need to
> > install using the current executable and then overwrite with the
> > contents of your zip file? How should this zip file be presented to new
> > users on the web page?
> 
> It is complementary.
> 
> The current installer is better. It does clever stuff like recognise
> CPU and install optimised version of ATLAS.
> 
> However, the current installer was made using NSIS. It turns out that
> NSIS has a bug, which means that some locales cannot use it, it just
> will not run. This zip makes it possible for those locales to use the
> latest mingw version of octave.
> 
> To use, it needs to be extracted. Then,
> 
> C:\Octave\3.2.4_gcc-4.4.0\bin\octave-3.2.4.exe
> 
> starts octave.

Okay, that sounds fair enough. How do you suggest we present this to
users on the web site?

Søren


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