From help-request at octave dot org Thu Jan 5 11:09:25 2006 Subject: Re: how to install OCTAVE in windows XP From: Mike Miller To: "John W. Eaton" cc: Quentin Spencer , help@octave.org Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:00:39 -0600 (CST) On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, John W. Eaton wrote: > On 4-Jan-2006, Quentin Spencer wrote: > > > 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: > > But doesn't this version also depend on the Cygwin DLL? So people don't > really care whether it is Cygwin based. They just don't want to know > about it. But what does it mean for the version to depend on the DLL? I think what people want is to download an installable "setup.exe" or somesuch that they can simply click on a couple of times. They don't want instructions and they don't want to have to download multiple programs from multiple web sites. I don't think DLLs mean anything to most of these people. Maybe the issue with DLLs is that installing a stand-alone Octave that requires the Cygwin DLL will mess up the system if Cygwin is installed either before or after the Octave stand-alone is installed. Is that it? 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 -------------------------------------------------------------