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Re: README files for Windows platforms
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marco atzeri |
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Re: README files for Windows platforms |
Date: |
Tue, 4 Jan 2011 12:43:18 +0100 |
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:15 PM, marco atzeri wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Rik wrote:
>> 12/30/10
>>
>> The list of README files which need to be updated before the 3.4 release is
>> up on the wiki at http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?UpdateREADMEList. Ben and
>> company have been doing great work on creating the README.MacOS file and so
>> we can turn to the Windows files. There are 4 files:
>>
>> README.Windows
>> README.Cygwin
>> README.MSVC
>> INSTALL.Windows
>>
>> README.Windows is the master and merely points out to README.Cygwin and
>> README.MSVC. README.Cygwin and README.MSVC need someone who uses these
>> platforms to review the instructions. For example, README.MSVC refers to
>> CVS versions of the code, but of course the preference is for Mercurial
>> now. INSTALL.Windows is marked at the top of the file as being out of date
>> and is not distributed in tarballs according to Makefile.am. I propose to
>> delete it. Finally, does someone (Tatsuro?) want to contribute a
>> README.MinGW? I don't mind editing it once the instructions are there, but
>> I don't use Windows platforms and can't create that file myself.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rik
>>
>
> I will review the Cygwin one, it need just some notes on how to call
> configure to avoid
> same pitfall
>
> Marco
>
Rik,
see attached.
I am still maintaining some history but if it is unclear or
superfluous you can just
leave only the 3.3.54+ instructions.
I have not reported the fltk printing crash as that is common to other platform
Regards
Marco
README.Cygwin.patch
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