Re: README files for Windows platforms

[Rik]

> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:15 PM, marco atzeri  wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Rik  wrote:
>>> 12/30/10
>>>
>>> The list of README files which need to be updated before the 3.4 release is
>>> up on the wiki at http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?UpdateREADMEList.  Ben and
>>> company have been doing great work on creating the README.MacOS file and so
>>> we can turn to the Windows files.  There are 4 files:
>>>
>>> README.Windows
>>> README.Cygwin
>>> README.MSVC
>>> INSTALL.Windows
>>>
>>> README.Windows is the master and merely points out to README.Cygwin and
>>> README.MSVC.  README.Cygwin and README.MSVC need someone who uses these
>>> platforms to review the instructions.  For example, README.MSVC refers to
>>> CVS versions of the code, but of course the preference is for Mercurial
>>> now.  INSTALL.Windows is marked at the top of the file as being out of date
>>> and is not distributed in tarballs according to Makefile.am.  I propose to
>>> delete it.  Finally, does someone (Tatsuro?) want to contribute a
>>> README.MinGW?  I don't mind editing it once the instructions are there, but
>>> I don't use Windows platforms and can't create that file myself.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Rik
>>>
>> I will review the Cygwin one, it need just some notes on how to call
>> configure to avoid
>> same pitfall
>>
>> Marco
>>
> 
> Rik,
> see attached.
> I am still maintaining some history but if it is unclear or
> superfluous you can just
> leave only the 3.3.54+ instructions.
> I have not reported the fltk printing crash as that is common to other 
> platform
I made a few tweaks and committed your patch
(http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/bfbe441f3706).

--Rik