Re: 3.2.0

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

--- Michael Goffioul wrote:

> 2009/5/20 Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden>:
> > Just from my curiosity, I would like ask you that you will come back to 
> > octave for
> windows/MSVC binary
> > release at octave 3.2 ?
> 
> At the moment, this is not in my plan to make further releases for
> Windows/MSVC. FSF has clearly stated that the way runtime libs
> are bundled in the installer is a GPL violation. Moreover, John
> has expressed his preference for Windows/MinGW, so I don't see
> the point of continuing producing Windows/MSVC binaries.
> 
> > AFAIK, you have started to work on MinGW, have not you?
> 
> Not really. I just tried to compile octave with MinGW, but didn't
> complete the whole stuff.

Thank you for your reply.

I am now trying to build the recent octave-forge packages on octave-3.0.5 by 
GCC-4.4.0-TDM-dw2 and 
planning to make reports on oct-dev lists.

Cheers!

Tatsuro



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