Re: Windows binaries and 3.2.4

[PhilipNienhuis]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso-2 wrote:
> 
> On 27 October 2011 09:32, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
>> It seems that there has been great success in getting 3.4.3 to build
>> on Windows platforms.
> 
> As Philip and Nitzan have pointed out, that's debatable.
> 

Apart from the graphics issue (and perhaps something with double "\" needed
here and there in unpredictable fashion, I forgot), 3.4.3 on MinGW is not
THAT bad. Au contraire; for example, it is much faster in a lot of things
than 3.2.4, and -as Rik pointed out- has a lot of bug fixes and better
functionality.



>> It feels like the bug tracker has seen a lot of reports lately for
>> issues filed against the 3.2.4 version of Octave on Windows.
> [snip]
>> Part of the problem is the Octave for Windows page
>> (http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForWindows) which shows 3.2.4
>> as the first release.
> 
> No, I don't think that's why all Windows users are using 3.2.4. They
> go to octave.org which points to Windows binaries on octave.sf.net and
> the only one listed there is 3.2.4. It looks like *we* are still
> saying, "use 3.2.4 on Windows" because that's what we are directly
> linking to.
> 

Can't Nitzan's 7z's be put up at the top in a replacement for 3.2.4,
accompanied by a request for help with building an installer?



> Sadly, 3.2.4 is still the best we can offer Windows users. If the
> compilation is done, the installer seems pretty easy to do. 
> 

"the best"?
As far as polishing the installer stuff goes, yes. (And stability may be
somewhat better.) 
But from pure Octave perspective, 3.4.3 is simply superior.

Again, apart from bug #34631, I couldn't find real showstopper problems in
Tatsuro's builds. Only some minor things, most of which seem to have been
fixed.

It is just how you balance things.


Philip,
> you were asking about it. Ben's code for the installer is under svn
> here:
> 
>    
> http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/admin/Windows/mingw32/octave.nsi.in?revision=7205&view=markup&pathrev=8276
> 

Good, so this "just needs a bit of updating" to current situation, it seems.
Hmmm... although (at first glance) I didn't spot the packages stuff (+
interdependencies).

Like Benjamin, Nitzan has done a lot of backlog maintenance on several OF
packages to get them compiled/installed.

All in all I think this would be a good time for someone to start working on
an installer; all pieces seem to be in place.
In the mean time, the graphics bug might be tackled; I (hope / suspect) it
is something simple like overflow in some font table or so; after a "close
all" or "close" the bug seems neutralized. I'll update the bug info in the
tracker.

Philip


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