From maintainers-request at octave dot org Wed Jan 12 18:01:47 2005
Subject: Re: Octave on Windows compiled with MinGW
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
To: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Cc: Ole Jacob Hagen <waterthrill at yahoo dot no>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:04:49 -0500

readline is a bit of a problem.  The windows console has a builtin 
readline capability
so it shouldn't be that bad in the short term.  Long term I would 
recommend embedding
octave in tcl/tk and writing a little IDE in tcl complete with 
readline-like capabilities.
Or maybe borrow the console from the R project.

I'm surprised kpathsearch isn't available since TeX was ported to DOS 
and Windows
ages ago.

fork is only used in a couple of places, and it shouldn't be too hard 
to replace them
with the equivalent windows calls.

- Paul

On Jan 12, 2005, at 9:00 AM, Laurent Mazet wrote:

>> How does Octave work? Is it fast enough? Did you compiled with with
>> gcc-3.2.x as well?
>
> Well... I managed to start octave and run some tests/benchmarks. I 
> spend all my
> results on an octave mailing-list few months ago. But, frankly, without
> readline nor kpathsearch nor fork, it wasn't really usefull.