Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Merging (parts of) mxe-octave

[Tony Theodore]

> On 30 Sep 2016, at 08:47, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Beyond that, there are about 30 additional Octave dependencies that would 
> need to be added as new packages to MXE.  I can work on that by porting the 
> mxe-octave Makefile fragments and patches to the current MXE system.
> 
> Is this something you would be interested in?

The library dependencies would be a very welcome addition indeed, both for 
Octave and other projects like Shogun and BioSig[1]. These packages would be in 
the “core” MXE and added using `tools/skeleton.py`.

Octave itself (and the Octave Forge packages) would be well suited to a 
plugin[2] to keep them self-contained and allow various customisations[3].

Cheers,

Tony

[1] https://github.com/mxe/mxe/issues/1037
[2] https://github.com/mxe/mxe/tree/master/plugins
[3] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Compiling-Octave-with-64_002dbit-Indexing.html