From help-request at octave dot org Wed Jan 4 11:55:06 2006 Subject: Re: how to install OCTAVE in windows XP From: Mike Miller To: Quentin Spencer cc: help at octave dot org Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:46:28 -0600 (CST) On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Quentin Spencer wrote: > I have tested it recently, and it works well. One observation I have is > that by the time you add X11 and all the other dependencies, it gets to > be a lot of packages to install. The complete octave + octave-forge > installation I did used something like 250 MB of disk space. The whole > list of dependencies includes things that I don't think octave actually > needs like perl (if I recall correctly, something in either octave or > octave-forge required part of TeX, which required perl). On Unix-like > systems it's all pretty standard, but it may be a bit overwhelming to a > Windows user. Right. On the other hand, I kinda like making Windows people use more unixy stuff. I would probably include some useful shell scripts and perl scripts with code I distribute, so I would want them to have perl and more on there. It might be best to have a Windows version of Octave like they have a Windows version of R, but that must be a monumental effort to create and maintain well. R seems to have a bigger user base and a bigger developer community so maybe they can afford it more easily. Mike ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------