Re: 3.6.0 release

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Nov-2011, Joaquim Luis wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote
| > 
| >  we have no way to do
| > packaging for OS X or Windows, at least that I know of so we have to
| > rely on volunteers. 
| > 
| > jwe
| > 
| 
| I'm sorry but I cannot understand understand this. There have been several
| posts in this list were posters refer to having succeed in building a
| Windows version. It's not always clear if they did it with Tatsuro's
| scripts/dependencies or or not but the fact is that they succeed. 
| So if developers are not going to produce the official Windows binaries: 
| 
| WHO WILL?

I don't think the Octave project has any obligation to distribute
binaries for any system.

If we are going to distribute binaries, then we need some way that the
effort involved can be shared.  Otherwise, as we have seen in the
past, we end up putting to much work on one or two individuals who
then burn out or otherwise lose interest and we are left with no way
to build binaries for future versions.

jwe