RE: Windows installation

[Julian DeMarchi]

: -----Original Message-----
: From: Agustin Barto [mailto:address@hidden
: Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 11:09 AM
: To: Julian DeMarchi
: Cc: address@hidden
: Subject: RE: Windows installation
: 
: 
: I could upgrade to 2.1.39 but I can't rebuild the patched cygwin.dll.
: This is fine for my local users but I don't know how many people is
: using ofw and cygwin. I guess I'll include the warnings from the older
: package.
: 
: Agustin
: 

Dear Agustin,

I actually am able to easily track statistics with the wonderful tools
at http://matlinks.sf.net.  Although they are not broken down by file or
web page, they do provide fair macroscopic estimates.

This may come as a surprise to many, but there are roughly 5000 page 
views per month at matlinks.net, and roughly 4000-6000 downloads.
These downloads are either all for Octave/Windows or Matlinks Toolchest.

Agustin: Recently, since I mirrored your new, WORKING, Windows download
(and I am sure many in our community will joimn me in praising you for 
your wonderful efforts here), both page views and downloads have increased
roughly 10-20%.  I believe there is a direct correlation.  Translated into
rough numbers, this probably means that now something like 2000-3000 
individuals are using your version of Octave for Windows mirrored at
Matlinks.  And these do not even include downloads from your website.

In summary, please don't underestimate the number of people using
Octave on the Windows operating system.  There is a very real, clear,
and sustained demand for Octave support on Microsoft Windows.  By all
means, let this popularity help convince you to keep on going!

- Julian / MatLinks


On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 11:09, Julian DeMarchi wrote:
> Right now there are two multi-MB options for Octave for Windows:
>  
> 1) 
> http://www.efn.uncor.edu/departamentos/computacion/materias/informatica/software.html,
>  which is the "latest and greatest", but on a slow download server.
>  
> 2) http://download.sf.net/matlinks/octave+forge.exe, which is a mirror of an 
> only slightly older version of the above, but on a fast download server (SF).
>  
> - Julian
> 
>       -----Original Message----- 
>       From: Mathieu Rondeau [mailto:address@hidden 
>       Sent: Thu 11/14/2002 3:36 AM 
>       To: address@hidden 
>       Cc: 
>       Subject: Package installation
>       
>       
> 
> 
> 
>       Did anyone ever succeeded in installing a package for Octave on Windows 
> 2000?
>       
>       I have version 2.1.36
>       
>       everytime I try a : install(".")
>       i get the 'filesep' error.
>       I change the script with : filesep = '/' and it still doesn't work.
>       
>       Can anyone help me?
>       
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