Re: First version of MinGW octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 15-Feb-2006, Shai Ayal wrote:

| that's what I though and what prompted me to develop octplot under
| cygwin. Also discussed previously on the list, it is possible to ship
| a custom made cygwin1.dll with a prepackaged version of octave which
| will make it independent of the other parts of cygwin, which window
| users are reluctant to install.

I think this is generally discouraged by the Cygwin developers.  Also,
it makes you the maintainer of your own version of Cygwin, and tends
to annoy the Cygwin developers if your users start complaining about
problems they are having with your custom cygwin1.dll on the Cygwin
lists.

jwe