Re: 3.0 when?

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello Benjamin

Perhaps you aware that I have forgotten to talk about the octcdf, which 
requires the netcdf.

Regards

Tatsuro 

--- Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello Benjamin
> 
> ==Benjamin wrote
> > It is of course possible, but not really necessary, since the mingw 
> > package contains the compiler that the package was compiled with and 
> > then forge packages can be added afterwards on-the-fly (if the 
> > dependencies are met, of course).
> > 
> > I see the advantage of the mingw package exactly there, you can build 
> > forge-packages on your own.
> > 
> > But of course I'm open for opinions.
> =====
> 
> I'm not against your idea.
> However some packages are difficult to handle for beginners.
> You should care about them.
> 
> The symbolic package requires the Ginac(+CLN).
> In addition it requires pkg-config(+Glib 2) command.
> If you do not prepare prebuild packages on mingw, I recommend you prepare the 
> Ginac(+CLN) and
> make
> them downloable and pkg-config(+Glib 2) command included in your binary 
> package. 
> 
> The windows package requires '-luuid' ld option.  I recommend you inculde 
> this option in
> mkoctfile.
> 
> The engine and the pdb packages are not supportable at present on the native 
> windows system.
> (Both for
> the mingw or the msvc.) However, if you use glibc to build the octave.  
> Perhaps no problem will
> be
> occured.
> 
> How do you think about the java and the jhandle packages?
> Perhaps they require the Sun Java.
> I do not want support them at the moment.
> 
> 
> I recommend you to write something like Readme-pkg-install.txt and the 
> detailed explanation will
> be
> described.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tatsuro    
> 
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