Re: MINGW32 patch: support for C++ code mkoctfile, octave-config

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-Jun-2007, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| On 6/13/07, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
| > Maybe they should be moved to a separate directory (src)?
| >
| > | Is it planned to eventually integrate these into octsve's source code?
| >
| > I seem to remember discussing this once before but I'm not sure why we
| > didn't include them.  If we do include them, I would want only one
| > version, so we would replace the scripts with the compiled code.  I
| > think some people objected to having them be compiled programs instead
| > of scripts because it made it harder to modify them or see exactly
| > what they are doing (for example, find how the environment variables
| > are used).
| 
| Indeed.
| I finally put the files under CVS on octave-forge such that anybody can
| access in case of interest. I then just try to keep the C++ version in sync
| with the shell scripts, when changes occur (which does not happen very
| often). I can live with that.

Maybe it would be better to have them included in the Octave sources
anyway, even if we have shell scripts for POSIX systems and a compiled
program for Windows?

jwe