Hi,
There is an alternative, of course. The MinGW folks have had an installer for
some time, mingw-get (and a graphical version of it, which is WIP). This can
install, handle dependencies, uninstall, update, etc. packages; everything from
MSYS to GCC and bzip2 is distributed in this fashion---which is part of the
reason why it may seem that there aren't too many MinGW installer downloads.
Basically, it can do everything that is expected of a package manager.
How about providing such a package for Octave? The package consists of an XML
catalogue and one or more archives for different components of the package
(e.g., one may wish to separate documentation, binaries, license stuff, extra
stuff, etc.). This seems like the perfect solution.
Cheers,
Bogdan
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