Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?

[Benjamin Lindner]

> |    * The Windows binary at Octave-Forge currently is the de-facto way  
> | of getting
> |      Octave on Windows. I really think this binary is a great feature, and I
> |      honestly think it should be hosted at octave.org, and be blessed as the
> |      semi-official way of getting Octave on Windows.
>
> If we distribute a binary of Octave for Windows from ftp.gnu.org, then
> I think it should be built with MinGW, not MSVC.  What is the
> situation for Emacs?  Is the Windows binary of Emacs built with MinGW?

according to the documentation on 
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/Getting-Emacs.html#Getting-Emacs
it is built with mingw32 or cygwin gcc ports.

benjamin