Re: 5.1.0 sources and Windows binaries uploaded

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 8:20 AM Kai Torben Ohlhus <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 2:37 PM CROZIER Richard <address@hidden> wrote:

This may be controversial, but have you considered offering a version of
Octave through the windows App store for a charge? This would be a
charge for convenience since users could still download from the website.

Richard
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Can you just upload the "octave-5.1.0-w64-installer.exe" installer there or does it take some extra effort?

Otherwise I think that would be a convenient way of donation.

It will likely be a bit more involved than that.  Windows Apps live in a sandboxed environment, are installed in a hidden/admin locked folder, and generally operate with different overall permissions.  I have no idea how package management would work in that environment. It would require someone to register with a MS developer account (one time not-too-large fee). There is apparently a process for packaging a desktop program for Universal Windows Platform[1] including a Desktop App Converter[ 2].  Maybe this isn't any more messy than the packaging done on Linux systems. But I doubt it.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/desktop-to-uwp-root

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/desktop-to-uwp-run-desktop-app-converter