Re: GNU Octave 3.8.2 builds for Windows - possible to find

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Oliver Heimlich 
> To: Tatsuro MATSUOKA
> Cc: "help-octave "tilek.aberra 
> Date: 2015/6/19, Fri 14:37
> Subject: Re: GNU Octave 3.8.2 builds for Windows - possible to find
> 
> On 19.06.2015 06:38, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>>  Thank you for information and give reply to the binary distribution.
>>  I will also upload 3.8.2 windows binary with corresponding source on my 
> web.
> 
> Yes, that would be helpful.
> 
>>  http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Microsoft_Windows
>> 
>> 
>>  I would be good to add information for mirror of ver.3.8 to the above.
> 
> There are many problems with inofficial mirrors and inofficial binaries:
> - Can you make sure that they are unmodified? (in the sense of no illegal or 
> harmful modifications)
> - You have no control over when the mirror goes offline
> - The download may be behind a paywall someday
> - etc.
> 
> So, you have a certain degree of responsibility when placing these links 
> somewhere and recommending particular mirrors. However, if you can set up a 
> mirror yourself, go ahead and place the link in the wiki.

Before reading your reply I wrote to abandon to upload by myself.
You are surely alright.

I will add the octave 3.8.2 windows installer and its source to
my web site and place link against it.   
 

>>  BTW, there is no link from Octave Wiki main page to 
> Octave_for_Microsoft_Windows.
>>  Is this intentional?
> 
> There is “Get installers and sources from http://octave.org/download” at the 
> top 
> of the main page, and there you can find the current installer for Microsoft 
> Windows.
> 
> The link to Octave_for_Microsoft_Windows can be found at the bottom of the 
> main 
> page, under the section “Development”, because it is of minor interest for 
> the 
> average user.


Ah! I have overlooked it. Thanks for the pointer. 

> Also, it is beneficial to guide the users to the current stable version, 
> which 
> will then back the current development.

OK, I will add additional information to install octave-forge using 
src/build_packages.m

4.0.0_0 release there are small flaws : 
Version number of general and signal packages are inconsistent those of 
archives (tar.gz files).
io-2.2.7.tar.gz in src directory is buggy.

Tatsuro