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Re: Standalone windows install: why?
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Paul Thomas |
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Re: Standalone windows install: why? |
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Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:22:07 +0200 |
If I could offer a couple of comments on this:
In spite of the benefits of the Cygwin environment, folk do appear to prefer
straight Windows installs. Since gcc-4.x binaries have been available for
Windows, the demand for my regular Cygwin snapshots has declined to a
trickle.
Cygwin does install nicely from a CD or over a network. You can download
Cygwin and distribute it, together with a prebuilt octave. You could even
add a gfortran binary......
Paul T
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Blais" <address@hidden>
To: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 7:11 PM
Subject: Standalone windows install: why?
John W. Eaton wrote:
On 31-Mar-2005, Jianhong Wang <address@hidden> wrote:
| I am interested to use a independent Window exe installation without
| CygWin.
Why do you want to do this?
I would *love* to have a standalone windows install more recent than the
2.1.50, without having to do a cygwin install (and I'll check out the one
posted), and I don't even run windows.
The reason is that I would really like to use octave in my teaching, and
to get a student who doesn't know a lot about computers to install cygwin,
and then octave, is extremely difficult. I am trying to decide for a
class whether to use scilab or octave, and I am leaning towards scilab for
the simple reason that there is a reasonably robust single install. I
prefer octave for my work, and I would really prefer to use it in a class,
but it is a lot to ask of a student without a lot of experience.
The installation of the 2.1.50 is *great*, but the version is just not new
enough to be workable for me, because the scripts I write in my 2.1.67 in
Linux, break too often in the 2.1.50 Windows install.
Just thought I'd give my perspective on this, if it's any help.
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- Re: Can't find Octave 2.1.69 for windows, David Bateman, 2005/03/31
- Re: Can't find Octave 2.1.69 for windows, Jianhong Wang, 2005/03/31
- Re: Can't find Octave 2.1.69 for windows, John W. Eaton, 2005/03/31
- Standalone windows install: why?, Brian Blais, 2005/03/31
- Standalone windows install: why?, John W. Eaton, 2005/03/31
- Re: Standalone windows install: why?, Brian Blais, 2005/03/31
- Re: Standalone windows install: why?, John W. Eaton, 2005/03/31
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- Re: Standalone windows install: why?, John W. Eaton, 2005/03/31
- Re: Can't find Octave 2.1.69 for windows, David Bateman, 2005/03/31