From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Feb 6 10:03:39 2002 Subject: Octave and Cygwin From: "Smith, Ken (K.)" To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:03:20 -0600 I recently installed octave-windows-2000oct25d from sourceforge. After installing, I realized that it had overwritten Cygwin registry variables. Therefore, my previously existing cygwin installation no longer functioned. Even after uninstalling Octave, I had to manually edit the registry so that the cygwin root directory would point to the original location. In particular, HKEY_USERS..Software.Cygnus Solutions.Cygwin.mounts v2./, was set to the Octave specific installation of cygwin. Why not just require cygwin to have been previously installed? This would be better in several ways. Firstly, you wouldn't destroy the previous installation. Secondly, it is redundant and wasteful to have two copies of the same code. And finally, you wouldn't have to worry about maintaining your own "distribution" of cygwin. In addition, cygwin is pretty easy to install. By the way, clicking on the Octave Start Menu entry did nothing but bring up a console window and subsequently close it after writing a terse message which I can't recall at the moment. ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------