From help-request at octave dot org Wed Jan 4 12:37:27 2006 Subject: Re: how to install OCTAVE in windows XP From: Quentin Spencer To: Mike Miller CC: help at octave dot org Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:32:10 -0600 Mike Miller wrote: > 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. That certainly seems to be what people want. Even with an up-to-date cygwin release out there, downloads of the 2 1/2 year old 2.1.50 windows binary hit an all-time high in November, according to the download stats page: http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=2888&ugn=octave&type=prdownload&mode=alltime&package_id=40078&release_id=174240&file_id=360185 > R seems to have a bigger user base and a bigger developer community so > maybe they can afford it more easily. Maybe so. But it really only takes one dedicated person to step up and take maintainership. -Quentin ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------