Re: Using msys2 for mxe-octave

[Colin Macdonald]

On 2018-08-30 12:07 PM, JohnD wrote:
> As a nice side effect, we can now do stuff like install python and sympy
> through msys2 package manager:
>
> > pacman -Sy
> > pacman -S python3-pip
> > pip install sympy

If I've understood correctly, you mean the end-user can do that Octave 
is installed.  But where does she type those commands?  Can she do 
`system('pacman -Sy')` from within Octave?

Anyway, certainly sounds like good news for the Symbolic package (and 
others) with external dependencies.  If someone can test all this and 
document it (e.g., at [1]) it would be much appreciated!

thanks,
Colin

[1]
https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy/wiki/Notes-on-Windows-installation