Re: A MinGW release tomorrow?

[Quentin Spencer]

Shai Ayal wrote:

> 100MB!! -- that's one hefty distribution!
>
> How is that distributed between octave, octave-workshop, and "all the
> other stuff that it needs to get working"? I mean the octave-2.1.50
> installer from octave-forge is 8MB.
>
> And another silly question -- did you strip the binaries?  I know it's
> along the lines of "did you plug it in" but I'm asking just in case ..
>
>  

Just to put things in perspective, the 2.9.x series adds dependencies on 
ufsparse and glpk, and I'm not sure 2.1.50 even used fftw. Furthermore, 
I believe the MinGW version David is working on includes octave-forge 
with all of its optional dependencies: ginac, cln, qhull, gsl and more. 
I doubt any of this was included in the 2.1.50 windows binary. I'm sure 
a Matlab installer with the equivalent functionality would take at least 
that much space. If you removed all of those dependencies, I'm sure it 
could be much smaller, and if someone wanted to support such a thing, I 
suppose it wouldn't be too difficult to use David's version as a 
starting point.

-Quentin