From maintainers-request at octave dot org Tue Feb 14 12:27:51 2006
Subject: Re: Octave MinGW yet?
From: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
To: David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com>
cc: Sebastien Loisel <sloisel at gmail dot com>,         octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers@octave.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:26:39 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, David Bateman wrote:

> Also note that the tar-ball will include mingw compilers. I want to keep 
> these even when I clean things up, so that I have the same compilers 
> available for mkoctfile as were used to build octave itself, so I won't 
> remove these even with a clean-up.

One request that I'd like to make (maybe I'm not understanding you 
correctly here), could you make these separate packages when you do the 
final actual build?  I think it could be very helpful to those of us who 
don't really build oct files to have a smaller download.

Bill

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