From maintainers-request at octave dot org Wed Feb 15 22:51:11 2006
Subject: Re: First version of MinGW octave
From: Shai Ayal <shaiay at gmail dot com>
To: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
Cc: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>,         octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers@octave.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:49:33 +0200

What is the issue with symbolic links? I was under the impression that
cygwin emulates these

Shai

On 2/16/06, Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net> wrote:
>
> On Feb 15, 2006, at 11:56 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>
> > On 15-Feb-2006, Shai Ayal wrote:
> >
> > | that's what I though and what prompted me to develop octplot under
> > | cygwin. Also discussed previously on the list, it is possible to ship
> > | a custom made cygwin1.dll with a prepackaged version of octave which
> > | will make it independent of the other parts of cygwin, which window
> > | users are reluctant to install.
> >
> > I think this is generally discouraged by the Cygwin developers.  Also,
> > it makes you the maintainer of your own version of Cygwin, and tends
> > to annoy the Cygwin developers if your users start complaining about
> > problems they are having with your custom cygwin1.dll on the Cygwin
> > lists.
>
> Also, this breaks if you try to run octave and cygwin simultaneously.
> Windows sees that both are called cygwin1.dll and so only loads one
> of them.
>
> This and the symbolic links are the reason I didn't release a new
> version of the octave installer.
>
> - Paul
>
>