RE: "Official" binary release for Windows

[John D]

-----Original Message-----
From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 4:05 PM
To: John Donoghue; John W. Eaton
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: "Official" binary release for Windows

--- On Wed, 2014/3/19, John W. Eaton  wrote:

> On 03/07/2014 07:10 PM, John Donoghue wrote:
> > On 03/07/2014 06:08 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> >> Message: 3
> >> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 17:21:01 -0500
> >> From: "John W. Eaton"<address@hidden>
> >> To: octave maintainers mailing list<address@hidden>
> >> Subject: "Official" binary release for Windows 
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> >>
> >> I'd like to start making the Windows installer available from 
> >> ftp.gnu.org.  Is it ready for that now?  Or are there some 
> >> significant problems that need to be fixed before we should make
"official" releases?
> >>
> >> jwe
> >
> > I havent had any issues recently with the build except with gcc.
> >
> > I had added a readme html file for the install that may want to be 
> > looked at / modified prior to distribution, depending on what is 
> > distributed or not.
> >
> > Would it also make sense to list in it all the packages that are 
> > known to work and compile in windows ?
> 
> Sure.
> 
> Is there any good reason that openblas should not be used by default?
> 
> Are there any significant issues remaining?  Is it time to make the
> 3.8.1 binary available?
> 

I have tested the print feature of gnuplot graphics_toolkit using
octave-3.8.1 binary for windows downloaded from
http://octave.osuv.de/3.8/windows/  
 
octave:3> graphics_toolkit gnuplot
octave:4> fplot (@cos, [0, 2*pi])
octave:5> print -depsc cos.eps
warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
Some output formats are not available.
octave:6> print -dpng cos.png
octave:3> graphics_toolkit gnuplot
octave:4> fplot (@cos, [0, 2*pi])
octave:5> print -depsc cos.eps
warning: print.m: epstool binary is not available.
Some output formats are not available.
octave:6> print -dpng cos.png

Both cos.eps and cos.png have finite file size but do not have graphs.

Regards

Tatsuro

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I just tried on my install  - It behaves the same as yours when switched to
gnuplot
If I run fltk, print works as expected