Re: Adding new OF packages to mxe-octave

[Anirudha Bose]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Michael Goffioul <address@hidden> wrote:

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Anirudha Bose <address@hidden> wrote:

Thanks Michael. I have added all the "core" Octave Forge packages to my repository mxe-octave-anirudha.

Hi Anirudha,

I reviewed your recent changes, I didn't try to recompile yet, but here are few comments:

1) the windows version checking could probably drop Windows 2000, I'm not even sure octave would work on it; I think WinXP SP3 is a decent minimal version

I will push a changeset today dropping Windows 2000.

2) I noticed the warning about Win8; did you try the gnulib patch that solves the problem? it might be good to integrate it into the octave patch in MXE, until it's ported upstream; alternatively you could modify the installer to add "-i --line-editing" to the octave command in the start menu links

The gnulib patch doesn't work. The GUI still doesn't load when octave.exe is executed on Windows 8. I have tested this on other systems too.

The "-i --line-editing" trick is able to bring the prompt octave.exe:1> which was missing earlier. However, it doesn't solve the GUI problem.

 

3) you re-used the graphics from my installer; these are quite ancient and based on a logo proposal that was made a couple of years ago, before the current octave logo; the installer graphics should be based on the current octave logo; I'm not asking you to create the graphics, the current logo was created by address@hidden (IIRC), maybe you could ask him to make graphics for the installer?

Does it mean that the header images and welcome/finish page images should have the present Octave logo?

Michael.

- Anirudha