I am very excited to let you know that I have been selected as a Google Summer of Code student to work for GNU Octave. My sincere thanks to the Octave community, and my teacher Mukesh Tiwari for encouraging me. I will use this blog to post updates about my GSoC work at least once a week (or more often if I get something to update). I have provided the details of my project below.
Project Title: Improve Binary Packaging
URL: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/ani07nov/23001
I have decided to work on the mxe-octave repository by John W. Eaton in an attempt to improve his work. Right now I am trying to fix some problems I am facing while building his fork of MXE. When I run ‘make’ some packages fail with a build error. I switched from Ubuntu to OpenSUSE and the errors have minimized (no idea how), but I am yet to get a complete version of Octave built for Windows. The Community Bonding Period of GSoC will be over by June 16. My aim will be to solve these issues before the coding period starts. I will also chalk out a more revised time-line and goals for the mid-term evaluation once I am all set.
GNU Octave: Improve Binary Packaging 
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