Re: Change for OctaveForWindows in Octave Wiki

[David Bateman]

The MSVC version of Octave is based on 2.9.13 and not 2.1.73

D.

Rupert Swarbrick wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> I've just made a couple of small fixes (mostly spelling, which makes it
> the first time I've really used the Firefox spell-check thing!)
>
> There are two things I'm still not sure about:
>
> (1) The description of the two different versions is contradictory.
> Surely one version can't be recommended while on the next line there is
> a notice saying "you probably want this" about a different version.
>
> I understand the reasoning behind the old stable version and the more
> feature-complete unstable one, but I'm not sure what the correct
> phrasing is in this case.
>
> (2) The "Notes" section of 1.2 Octave Workshop needs some sort of
> change, but I don't really understand the sentence. Does it mean:
>
> "This is no longer maintained because mingw (on which it depends) does
> not contain the 2.9.x series of octave."
>
> Or something else?? :)
>
> ----
>
> In a more general comment, if the Cygwin install is the most standard,
> maybe we should move that to be the first option, along with a note
> above the list and maybe with "short install instructions" before the
> more detailed ones?
>
> I'm happy to do this refactor if people want it, but I don't use Octave
> on Windows at the moment, so I'm not really particularly qualified!
>
> Rupert
>   


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