Re: Octave MinGW yet?

[David Bateman]

> I don't think that the penalty is for disk space I think it's bandwidth 
> and download times.  My guess is that most users have a few extra GB 
> sitting around but a 500MB download (let's say even 200-300MB when it's 
> compressed) can take a long time, and I recall someone who couldn't work 
> with CVS well because it is so bandwidth intensive and that would cost him 
> more than he could afford.  And for regular DSL at 50 KBps that could take 
> 1.5 hours to download.


Yeah, I have 8Mbps download and 1Mbps upload on my home machine, and if 
I could be bothered getting and ADSL 2+ modem I could get 20Mbps 
download. So bandwidth isn't really a problem on my end :-). In any case 
I said about 550MB uncompressed. As a zip file or tar-ball I'm not sure 
what that will be yet. However it will be significantly smaller than that.

BTW, I lied about only having to set %OCTAVE_ROOT% to change the 
location of octave on the disk. At the moment, you'll have to edit 
%OCTAVE_ROOT%/msys/etc/fstab and replace c:\octave\MinGW with the 
expansion of %OCTAVE_ROOT%\MinGW. I know how to fix this but it has 
other implications for the batch file, etc that needing addressing, and 
I'm lazy tonight I'll leave that for another day..

Cheers
David

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