Hi all,
I've a student who's supposed to work on improving/completing binary
packaging of octave on Windows and OS X during the next 2 months.
However, I can see that there are already 3 to 4 people actively working
on MXE. MXE/octave seems to already work for MinGW cross and native, as
well as native Linux. So I'm a bit concerned that there won't be much
left to do for the student.
So I'd like you to help define clear goals for this project in order to
avoid stepping on each other's toes. For instance, I had listed adding
support for OpenBLAS as a possible goal for him, but I saw today it had
been added to MXE yesterday.
Basically, what's left at the moment?
- writing a NSI installer that's a bit smarter than "dump everything";
it should also support smart reinstallation and package addition (as in:
re-run the installer to install additional components, which were not
selected previously)
- missing octave-forge packages + dependencies
- OS X
(feel free the extend the list)