Re: README files for Windows platforms

[Michael Goffioul]

I suggest to delete README.MSVC as well. There's no official support
to compile octave with MSVC anymore. And it actually doesn't compile
with that compiler, at least not without patching the sources.

Michael.


On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
> 12/30/10
>
> The list of README files which need to be updated before the 3.4 release is
> up on the wiki at http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?UpdateREADMEList.  Ben and
> company have been doing great work on creating the README.MacOS file and so
> we can turn to the Windows files.  There are 4 files:
>
> README.Windows
> README.Cygwin
> README.MSVC
> INSTALL.Windows
>
> README.Windows is the master and merely points out to README.Cygwin and
> README.MSVC.  README.Cygwin and README.MSVC need someone who uses these
> platforms to review the instructions.  For example, README.MSVC refers to
> CVS versions of the code, but of course the preference is for Mercurial
> now.  INSTALL.Windows is marked at the top of the file as being out of date
> and is not distributed in tarballs according to Makefile.am.  I propose to
> delete it.  Finally, does someone (Tatsuro?) want to contribute a
> README.MinGW?  I don't mind editing it once the instructions are there, but
> I don't use Windows platforms and can't create that file myself.
>
> Cheers,
> Rik
>