Re: Performance issues on Windows, suggests a MSVC build

[Michael Goffioul]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:26 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 22-Jun-2011, Michael Goffioul wrote:
>
> | I'm not willing to discuss the GPL, but I failed (and still fail) to see
> | the benefit for the end user of being allowed to link to a library, but
> | not to bundle it.
>
> You have no disagreement from me on that point.
>
> As for the MSVC runtime libraries, it is a strange type of "System
> Component" that is not normally distributed as part of the system.
> OTOH, is that aspect of it (not being installed by default) really
> that much different from things like libstdc++ on GNU/Linux systems?
> As far as I know, that is not included by default with most
> distributions, but pulled in later as a dependency.  So if someone
> were motivated to do so, it seems they could build an Octave binary
> linked with MSVC runtime libraries and have the user install the
> necessary system components in order to properly install it.

Indeed. With one difference, though: in the installer I provided, the
bundling allowed to install a fully working octave without administrator
rights, as a simple user; while using the MS VC++ runtime dll redistributable
installer, you need administrator rights. This is a big advantage when you
don't have full control on your computer (again, this is common in industry).

Michael.