Bogdan wrote > > > Anyway, is this Nitzan person, that you have mentioned, still active and > can (s)he be contacted? > >
Yes, I am active and watching this thread. The mingw octave/octaveforge binaries packages on sourceforge are based on Tatsuro's mingw libraries and have been compiled and packaged by me for my personal usage at the time when I have looked for an updated octave binaries for windows after the previous maintainer (Benjamin Lindner) has quit. I have contributed the outcome of this effort so other windows users can use it, and also have kept updating these packages in way that they can be easily used, and have compromised on size. As for packaging a more effective (smaller and still flexible) distribution, it might be possible, but it requires a much bigger effort - mainly for making the dev. tools and environment automatically getting and building the octave/octaveforge dependencies. For most of these, I didn't built the dependencies by myself, but have used other mingw developers work. I think that making such an "effective installer" is beyond my skills and spare time. As Philip mentioned before, I even didn't found the time yet to properly document and publish all the patches I have done for the octaveforge packages in order for them to compile under mingw. My patches can not be applied to the octaveforge source as they are because they should be revised for not breaking the compatibility to other systems. Nitzan -- View this message in context: http://gnu-octave-repository.2306053.n4.nabble.com/Regarding-the-MSYS-installer-tp4655444p4655473.html Sent from the octave-dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
