Re: Fw: Octave on Windows

[Andy Buckle]

On 24 March 2015 at 09:38, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:

----- Original Message -----

> From: "giorgio.denunzio
> To: "octave-maintainers
> Cc:
> Date: 2015/3/24, Tue 17:40
> Subject: Re: Fw: Octave on Windows

>
>
>>  ----- Forwarded Message -----
>>>  From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
>>>  To: Giorgio De Nunzio 
>>>  Date: 2015/3/24, Tue 16:16
>>>  Subject: Re: Octave on Windows
>>>
>>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>>
>>>>   From: Giorgio De Nunzio 
>>>>   To: tmacchant
>>>>   Cc:
>>>>   Date: 2015/3/24, Tue 15:34
>>>>   Subject: Octave on Windows
>>>>
>>>>   Hi Tatsuro,
>>>>   sorry for disturbing you instead of writing to Octave list, but I
> have
>>>>   not had the time to follow the list in recent times, and you are
> for
>>>>  me
>>>>   the referring person for Octave on Windows...
>>>>   I have been asked to demonstrate some Octave features to a school
>>>>  class,
>>>>   but I have not understood if there exists a 4.0 rc2 for windows
>>>>   available somewhere, and if it is trusty enough, can you please
> tell
>>>>  me?
>>>>   Otherwise should I give up and use http://mxeoctave.osuv.de/ with
>>>>   3.8.2-5? I admit I'd like to test the latest version...
>>>>   Thanks and again please excuse me.
>>>>   Giorgio
>>>>
>>>>   --
>>>>   Dr. Giorgio De Nunzio
>>>>   Dipart. di Matematica e Fisica "Ennio De Giorgi", Univ.
> del
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>>>
>>  Sorry my reply is cc. ing to the octave-mailing list without your
>>  permission.
>>
>>  Jwe told in the release announce of 4.0.0-rc2 that the windows binary will
>>  appears soon.
>>  However, the binaries has not appeared at the moments.
>>
>>  I am now trying to build octave-4.0.0-rc for windows binaries using mxe
>>  system
>>  but not complete yet.
>>
>>  # It is known that some octave-forge packages does not work on octave 4.0.
>>
>>
>>  Tatsuro 
>
> Hi Tatsuro, and good morning to the List.
> Thank you very much.
> While waiting for your valuable work to be accomplished, I'll use an older
> version.
> Thanks to all octave maintainers.
> Best regards
> Giorgio

On official release of 4.0.0 (not rc version), 
it is planned that the windows binary will be distributed from the octave official site.

Tatsuro

4.0.0 rc1 for windows is here

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/octave/

octave-4.0.0-rc1-installer.exe

I don't know how bad the bugs are. It might meet your needs.

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