Octave 3.0.1 bug_report fails

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-Jul-2008, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Bill Denney <wsloand at gmail.com> wrote:
| > John W. Eaton wrote:
| >> I think it would be better to make the bug reporting function work on Windows systems.
| 
| I finally found a way to implement it, which is rather independent
| of the mail client, through the use of MAPI. I committed a patch to
| the graphics mq. I'm confident it should work on most systems:
| I tried it on WinXP pro + Outlook, WinXP pro + Outlook Express,
| WinXP home + Thunderbird, and it worked reasonably well. Any
| mail client that implements MAPI should be fine. And if MAPI does
| not work, then an editor (notepad) is opened and the user is
| requested to copy-and-paste the bug report manually into his mail
| client.

OK, now we have separate versions of the mkoctfile, octave-config, and
octave-bug scripts/programs on Unix and Windows systems.  I think this
is a potential source for confusion because the separate versions are
likely to behave in slightly different ways and/or diverge over time.

Would it be better to simply use the C++ versions on all systems?

Is there any good reason to not do that?  If so, then who will take on
the job of ensuring that the behavior of the separate versions of
these programs are equivalent?

jwe