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distributing Octave in August
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poti |
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distributing Octave in August |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:24:54 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Dear maintainers,
I have nearly completed a project to put together a system
for statistics that can be run from DVD (or an iPod) on Macs
and PCs. At the start of August I will be distributing DVDs based on
this project at the Joint Statistical Meetings.
I think adding Octave could make this DVD a more interesting item to
bring home for statisticians who are in departments of Mathematics.
However: this DVD is made possible by Emacs, which serves as the unifying
'IDE' and the site of the cross-platform configuration scripts. MSVC Octave on
Windows does not return a prompt to Emacs, and thus does not work.
(I would prefer the new MINGW32 binary, does that work? Where can I find
it?)
I have looked into the various elisp forms related to executing
processes, but it seems the issue is related to how Octave outputs its
prompt or how a tty is handled by Windows.
Perhaps this section of the GNU Emacs for Windows FAQ applies to
Octave:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/big.html#sub-processes
with 'buffering in shells' sounding most like what I see?
My question is, what really is the problem? If this is something hard to
address, it will be helpful for me to know so I can drop Octave for now
and work on polishing my presentation of TeXLive, R, Emacs, GnuWin32,
antiword, mdbtools, and the statistical visualization tools that I have
working.
Thank you for your consideration, and I wish you well on this project.
-Poti Giannakouros
http://potis.org/software/livedvd/
- distributing Octave in August,
poti <=
- Re: distributing Octave in August, Benjamin Lindner, 2007/06/15
- distributing Octave in August, John W. Eaton, 2007/06/15
- Re: distributing Octave in August, Olli Saarela, 2007/06/15
- Re: distributing Octave in August, Michael Goffioul, 2007/06/15
- Re: distributing Octave in August, poti, 2007/06/15
- Re: distributing Octave in August, John W. Eaton, 2007/06/15
- Re: distributing Octave in August, poti, 2007/06/16
- Re: distributing Octave in August, poti, 2007/06/17
- Re: distributing Octave in August, John W. Eaton, 2007/06/18