Re: Binary distributions (was: Re: Release goals for 3.6)

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Aug-2011, PhilipNienhuis wrote:

| It is my plan (and back on my priority list) to help Tatsuro with this. I
| was underway but got distracted.
| 
| Once a number of MinGW specific issues are ironed out, it wouldn't be too
| hard to transform Tatsuro's binary and his build environment into an
| "installer" (AFAIU a mere glorified unzipper with some bells and whistles).
| Some days or weeks back I've seen a post from someone who offered help
| there.

As I understand it, the 3.2.4 Windows binary that is on the Octave
Forge site is packaged using NSIS.  Is that what you meant by
"glorified unzipper with some bells and whistles"?

| So you see, there is /some/ activity. But I expect that coming Octave-3.4.3
| might be the basis for a MinGW binary.

OK, it's good to know there is some progress being made.

Thanks,

jwe