RE: Re: Using msys2 for mxe-octave

[JohnD]

> 
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> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 14:47:13 -0500
> From: Colin Macdonald <address@hidden>
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> Subject: Re: Using msys2 for mxe-octave
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> On 2018-08-30 12:07 PM, JohnD wrote:
> > As a nice side effect, we can now do stuff like install python and sympy
> > through msys2 package manager:
> >
> >> pacman -Sy
> >> pacman -S python3-pip
> >> pip install sympy
> 
> If I've understood correctly, you mean the end-user can do that Octave
> is installed.  But where does she type those commands?  Can she do
> `system('pacman -Sy')` from within Octave?
> 
> Anyway, certainly sounds like good news for the Symbolic package (and
> others) with external dependencies.  If someone can test all this and
> document it (e.g., at [1]) it would be much appreciated!
> 
> thanks,
> Colin
> 
> [1]
> https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy/wiki/Notes-on-Windows-installation
> 
> 

They could do via system calls, although I prefer opening up the Bash shell
window from the Octave install and doing it from there.

Currently it is only going to work on dev installers that  have been created
using msys2 as part of the install - I guess next release will be Octave
5.0.0 ?