A note for Octave/Windows – MinGW packages on the Octave Forge site

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

This post is just a memo for Octave/Windows – MinGW packages on the Octave Forge site.

Many inquiries for the Octave/Windows – MinGW packages on the Octave Forge web site have been
carried out recently.

Top page : http://octave.sourceforge.net/
Download page : http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/

Just after brown color box in the top page of the Octave Forge web site, you will find
If you have questions regarding software downloaded from Octave-Forge, send a message to the
repository mailing list. 

The term ‘repository mailing list’ is underlined and it is a link to the ‘repository mailing list
’. The email address of the list is ‘octave-dev at lists.sourceforge.net ’

Therefore in principle, questions intrinsic to ‘Octave/Windows – MinGW packages’ are
recommended asked at the 
‘repository mailing list’: octave-dev at lists.sourceforge.net.  

Of course, questions and bug reports are not intrinsic to the‘Octave/Windows – MinGW packages
are to be asked at help-octave at octave.org (help at octave.org) and bug-octave at octave.org
(bug-octave at octave.org), respectively.

However, it is very hard from a users point of view to determine when a problem relates to the
packaging of Octave or when it is an integral problem of Octave as pointed out by Soren Hauberg. 
Therefore I would like to ask a questioner that an issue intrinsic to 
‘Octave/Windows – MinGW packages’ is recommended asked at ‘octave-dev at lists.sourceforge.net
’ from the next time.

BTW.  I will note the octave/Window packages by Microsoft VC++.
The packages are removed from the Octave Forge site at Apr 21, 2009 form license issue
Please see

http://www.nabble.com/No-symbolic-package-in-future-(Windows-VC%2B%2B)-releases-td23135095i20.html#a23151497

So current available octave binaries are only Octave/Windows – MinGW packages.  The jhandle
graphic backend is not included in the packages.  It is theoretically possible to in stall jhandle
octave-forge package into the current octave distributed.  However I think that it is hard work.  
Please see 

http://www.nabble.com/Re:-Fwd:-Octave-3.2.0-backend-on-MS-Vista-p24609365.html
and
http://www.nabble.com/Octave-3.2.0-mingw-jhandles-to24024734.html

Regards

Tatsuro

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