Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of our octave binding and examples for version 4.4.0 of octave

[Alan W. I. <Ala...@gm...>]

On 2018-08-07 06:37-0000 Arjen Markus wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
> I can confirm clean test results for Octave 4.2.2 on Cygwin - I cannot do the same for MinGW-w64/MSYS2 as that does not provide an octave package as far as I can tell. There is an Octave pacakge on github (https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-octave-hg) but its status is completely unclear to me. As is how it should be installed (pacman does not recognise it)

Hi Arjen:

Thanks for that confirmation on Cygwin.  That is the first time in a
long time (if ever?) that octave has worked on that platform for us
which I regard as a big step forward.

And as far as MinGW-w64/MSYS2 is concerned, my guess is the
information at
<https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-octave-hg>
is for a pacman package for octave that has not matured yet so the
package build results are not included in the official pacman packages
for MinGW-w64/MSYS2.  But the small part of that package that we use
for our octave binding build and tests might work well.  So if you
want to follow up further, I suggest you build the pacman package for
octave following the cookbook located at
<https://github.com/msys2/msys2/wiki/Creating-packages>.

As you know, my long-term dream has been to use Wine to help you out
more with both Cygwin and MinGW-w64/MSYS2 testing so recently I looked
into that again.  But currently it does not look good.  For example,
both Cygwin and MinGW-w64/MSYS2 upgraded from Windows XP to Windows
Vista functionality a couple of years back, but according to
discussion at <https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/issues/682>
Wine has a lot of missing Vista functionality that has to be
implemented before either of those two distributions will work on Wine
again.  So until that happens, I am limited to just commenting from
the sidelines concerning those distributions.  However, I hope those
comments (such as the possibility mentioned above of building an
octave MinGW-w64/MSYS2 package for yourself using the pacman packaging
information at
<https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-octave-hg>)
are still of some use to you.

Alan
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