Re: README files for Windows platforms

[marco atzeri]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Rik  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  INSTALL.Windows is marked at the top of the file as being out of date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
>

I will review the Cygwin one, it need just some notes on how to call
configure to avoid
same pitfall

Marco