Re: Octave-maintainers Digest, Vol 155, Issue 1

[John Donoghue]

On 2/1/19 2:50 AM, address@hidden wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:16:31 -0500
> From: Nicholas Jankowski<address@hidden>
> To: octave-maintainers<address@hidden>
> Subject: windows install for upcoming release
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> looking at the wiki for Windows installation instructions [1], looking for
> a few clarifications as things have changed a bit over time. Please correct
> me if any of the following is incorrect:
>
> 1 - There is a note that starting with Octave 4.4.0 users must add
> --force-gui to any manual Windows shortcuts or the CLI will start by
> default.  I do not have that flag in my shortcuts, and the GUI starts by
> just calling 'octave.vbs'.  It seems this behavior has been changed and the
> instruction can be removed?

gui starts by default now, so you want to create cmdline octave 
shortcut, you would need the --no-gui option, otherwise no additional 
options are required.

> 2 - there is no more 'octave.bat' file, only octave.vbs. assuming this to
> be correct, reference the .bat can be removed for starting octave.
There is a bat file, how was moved to bin directory
> 3 - After using the executable installer, there's nothing else for the user
> to do except use the shortcuts created for him/her, correct? (Looking for
> confirmation, I only even use the zip archives...)
Correct
> 4 - for the zip/7z archives:  after unzipping, there are 6 different
> executable files in the octave root directory.
>
> cmdshell.bat
> fc_update.bat
> msys2_shell.cmd
> octave.vbs
> octave-firsttime.vbs
> post-install.bat
>
> while the general shortcut should be made to octave.vbs,  which of those
> files, and in what order, should the user run them? I know fc_update.bat
> was recommended, but I don't know what firsttime and post-install are
> intended to do.

post-install is what is run from the installer after installation, so 
probally should be what is run at after unzipping. It registers the 
msys2 environment, calls the fc_cache, and does the pkg rebuild

octave-firsttime.vbs is called from the installer when run octave checkbox is 
checked - its only needed in the installer, as it needs to run octave as the 
unelevated user.


cmdshell.bat will display a bash shell window

> [1]https://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Microsoft_Windows#Packages
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