Re: pytave: docs for building on Windows

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

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

> From: Colin Macdonald 
> To: "octave-maintainers> Cc: 
> Date: 2016/7/16, Sat 06:07
> Subject: pytave: docs for building on Windows
> 
> Abhinav,
> 
> Here are some notes I thought of, regarding documenting your efforts to get 
> PyTave building on Windows:
> 
> 1.  Please write this so that someone who has no idea what "mxe", 
> "msys2", "mingw", "cygwin" are (*cough* me 
> *cough*).
> 
> 2.  However, you don't have to explain what everything is, just provide 
> links and try to document as precisely as possibly what you tried. (e.g., 
> what 
> directories you install things into, what files you edited, etc).
> 
> 3.  An "executive summary" of a few sentences of what the current 
> blocks are (e.g., is it the boost dependency?)
> 
> 4.  A summary of other approaches you tried that didn't work (and if you 
> remember, what went wrong).
> 



> 5.  Should we do this on the wiki?  That way, others (e.g., Tatsuro) can 
> modify 
> too.
I had also worked on this matter and build experience on *windows* is longer 
(just longer)
than that of Abhinav. Therefore I may help Abhinav to write documents for 
building pytave on windows on the wiki.



> 6.  Incomplete is better than never, early-and-often, etc.


I also think so.


Tatsuro