Fwd: GNU Octave 3.8.2 builds for Windows - possible to find

[Tilek Aberra]

Dear Tasturo / Oliver ,

Thanks for the coordinated assistance. The link has done fine for me. I was able to run the mingw version of Coolprop with no hassle now.

http://www.ti3.tuhh.de/rump/intlab/Octave/octave.html

Regards,

Tilek

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:

----- Original Message -----

> From: Oliver Heimlich 
> To: Tatsuro MATSUOKA
> Cc: "help-octave "tilek.aberra 
> Date: 2015/6/19, Fri 14:37
> Subject: Re: GNU Octave 3.8.2 builds for Windows - possible to find
>
> On 19.06.2015 06:38, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>>  Thank you for information and give reply to the binary distribution.
>>  I will also upload 3.8.2 windows binary with corresponding source on my
> web.
>
> Yes, that would be helpful.
>
>>  http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Microsoft_Windows
>>
>>
>>  I would be good to add information for mirror of ver.3.8 to the above.
>
> There are many problems with inofficial mirrors and inofficial binaries:
> - Can you make sure that they are unmodified? (in the sense of no illegal or
> harmful modifications)
> - You have no control over when the mirror goes offline
> - The download may be behind a paywall someday
> - etc.
>
> So, you have a certain degree of responsibility when placing these links
> somewhere and recommending particular mirrors. However, if you can set up a
> mirror yourself, go ahead and place the link in the wiki.

Before reading your reply I wrote to abandon to upload by myself.
You are surely alright.

I will add the octave 3.8.2 windows installer and its source to
my web site and place link against it.   
 

>>  BTW, there is no link from Octave Wiki main page to
> Octave_for_Microsoft_Windows.
>>  Is this intentional?
>
> There is “Get installers and sources from http://octave.org/download” at the top
> of the main page, and there you can find the current installer for Microsoft
> Windows.
>
> The link to Octave_for_Microsoft_Windows can be found at the bottom of the main
> page, under the section “Development”, because it is of minor interest for the
> average user.


Ah! I have overlooked it. Thanks for the pointer. 

> Also, it is beneficial to guide the users to the current stable version, which
> will then back the current development.

OK, I will add additional information to install octave-forge using src/build_packages.m

4.0.0_0 release there are small flaws : 
Version number of general and signal packages are inconsistent those of archives (tar.gz files).
io-2.2.7.tar.gz in src directory is buggy.

Tatsuro 

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