Re: Octave 3.6.1 mingw for windows - updated

[Sébastien Villemot]

marco atzeri <address@hidden> writes:

> On 4/5/2012 10:47 AM, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
>
>>
>> I have updated the Windows installer for Octave 3.6.1 (MinGW). It is
>> available there:
>>
>>   http://www.dynare.org/octave/Octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2_20120303-setup.exe
>>
>> It features:
>>
>> - Octave 3.6.1 compiled for MinGW (as of 2012-03-03)
>>
>> - OpenBLAS 0.1.0 (with the dynamicarch for 2 threads being the default)
>>
>> - All Octave-Forge toolboxes (as of 2012-03-03) (all toolboxes are
>>    autoloaded, except ad, nan and gsl; java is autoloaded before io)
>
> it will be better to have no toolboxes autoloaded to avoid
> misconceptions of what is coming from octave and what from the
> toolboxes.

During the installation it is possible to only install Octave without
the Octave-Forge packages (by unclicking a checkbox).

From my point of view, if the user installs the Octave-Forge packages,
he expects them to be autoloaded. At least this is the policy that we
adopted in the Debian Octave Group.

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Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
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