Re: 3.0 when?

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello jwe

Is the proporsal from the Bejamin, which I agreed with, to be accepted or not?
If not, I will prepare the at least a miscellaneous octave-forge package. 

Regards

Tatsuro

--- Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello Michael and jwe.
> 
> Michael> Why not also package octave-forge in the mingw binaries?
> 
> jwe> I think it would be best if the standalone Windows distributions were
> jwe> essentially the same except for the choice of compiler.  Would it be
> jwe> difficult to make that happen?
> 
> I do not want my mingw binaries to be official release.
> Perhaps Benjamin will provide the official release at octave-forge.
> Yesterday I saw Benjamin's svn repository.  It seems that he is now 
> extesively preparing the
> next
> release.
> 
> The concept of my mingw binaries are to distribute the latest Windows native 
> binary
> as early as possible because of the building process octave itself on mingw 
> is now quite easy.
> What I have to do is to execute ./configure, make and make install-strip 
> if the external libraries are prepared.
> 
> However, for the forge packages, I have not fully test them.
> I have only tried the odepkg package and it was successful. 
> >From users standpoint, I think that edit command is convinient.
> So it is useful for users to be able to use edit command whether 
> the forge packages are installed or not.
> This is because I agreed with Benjamin's proposal.
> 
> PS
> I have just tried to build the miscellaneous package after your mails. 
> pkg install -local miscellaneous-1.0.4.tar.gz
>  :
>  :
> make: *** [waitbar.oct] Error 1
> The above is not really concerning to the discussion but it was the fact for 
> my binary.
> I will purchase the origin from now.
> 
> Anyway I'd like to hope to be usable edit command without using the forge 
> packages. 
> 
> Regards
>   
> Tatsuro
> 
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