Re: A MinGW release tomorrow?

[Quentin Spencer]

Shai Ayal wrote:

> Well, I'm sure Matlab comes in a DVD, But I thought we weren't going
> for BUG for BUG compatibility :)
>
> How large are the FC RPMs you a re producing?
>  

Adding up octave, octave-forge and their main dependencies, it looks 
like about 20 MB. However, the indirect dependencies that are already 
installed on many linux systems can add a lot more (texinfo requires 
tetex, which is 20 MB by itself).

-Quentin



> Shai
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> On 2/19/06, Quentin Spencer <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > Shai Ayal wrote:
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> > > 100MB!! -- that's one hefty distribution!
> > >
> > > How is that distributed between octave, octave-workshop, and "all the
> > > other stuff that it needs to get working"? I mean the octave-2.1.50
> > > installer from octave-forge is 8MB.
> > >
> > > And another silly question -- did you strip the binaries?  I know it's
> > > along the lines of "did you plug it in" but I'm asking just in case ..
> > >
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> > >
> > >      
> > Just to put things in perspective, the 2.9.x series adds dependencies on
> > ufsparse and glpk, and I'm not sure 2.1.50 even used fftw. Furthermore,
> > I believe the MinGW version David is working on includes octave-forge
> > with all of its optional dependencies: ginac, cln, qhull, gsl and more.
> > I doubt any of this was included in the 2.1.50 windows binary. I'm sure
> > a Matlab installer with the equivalent functionality would take at least
> > that much space. If you removed all of those dependencies, I'm sure it
> > could be much smaller, and if someone wanted to support such a thing, I
> > suppose it wouldn't be too difficult to use David's version as a
> > starting point.
> >
> > -Quentin
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