Re: A MinGW release tomorrow?

[Shai Ayal]

Well, I'm sure Matlab comes in a DVD, But I thought we weren't going
for BUG for BUG compatibility :)

How large are the FC RPMs you a re producing?

Shai

On 2/19/06, Quentin Spencer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Shai Ayal wrote:
>
> >100MB!! -- that's one hefty distribution!
> >
> >How is that distributed between octave, octave-workshop, and "all the
> >other stuff that it needs to get working"? I mean the octave-2.1.50
> >installer from octave-forge is 8MB.
> >
> >And another silly question -- did you strip the binaries?  I know it's
> >along the lines of "did you plug it in" but I'm asking just in case ..
> >
> >
> >
>
> Just to put things in perspective, the 2.9.x series adds dependencies on
> ufsparse and glpk, and I'm not sure 2.1.50 even used fftw. Furthermore,
> I believe the MinGW version David is working on includes octave-forge
> with all of its optional dependencies: ginac, cln, qhull, gsl and more.
> I doubt any of this was included in the 2.1.50 windows binary. I'm sure
> a Matlab installer with the equivalent functionality would take at least
> that much space. If you removed all of those dependencies, I'm sure it
> could be much smaller, and if someone wanted to support such a thing, I
> suppose it wouldn't be too difficult to use David's version as a
> starting point.
>
> -Quentin
>
>