Re: Short report Cygwin Octave-2.9.13

[Benjamin Lindner]

>  Eventually I'd like to see an ability like
> 
> pkg install
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/octave/image-1.0.2.tar.gz?download
> 
> to install a package directly with a download, and something like
> 
> pkg update
> 
> to keep the packages up to date. This is the reason the file
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.md5 exists, as it might be used
> to check whether the installed version of a package is up to date. If
> this is the case however it is essential that the compilers are include
> in your binary package. We can't do the same thing with MSVC compiler
> binaries which is why are of the packages are prebuilt and available in
> the installer.

I totally agree here, that's also the reason I want to provide 
mingw-build binary packages along with the gcc/g++/g77 in order to have
a seamless integration of the package building.

Side-question: how would a net-download be done when installing a package?
By using wget? Or some other way? Are there library dependencies for it, 
e.g. libcurl? Just asking, because this one I don't yet have in the build 
process...

benjamin

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