Octave distribution (was: Re: Octave advocacy)

[Jonathan Stickel]

Open source is a lot about choice, but there is a price to pay for that. 
 With Octave there are many choices: which blas/atlas package to use, 
hdf5 support, whether to install octave-forge, and others I don't know. 
 With octave-forge there are more choices:  GiNaC support, Qhull 
support, additional plotting packages, and others.

To truly choose for yourself, you must compile from source.  If you 
don't want to compile from source, you are at the mercy of those who 
will compile for you!  Usually binary packages come with less rather 
than more since the more you include, the more library dependencies must 
be solved.

Just my 2 cents.  BTW: this is why I use Gentoo for my Linux Distro.

Jonathan


Jonathan C. Webster wrote:
> Quentin Spencer wrote:
>
> >  Perhaps we need a little "octave-forge advocacy"? One problem I see 
> > is the RPM-based Linux distributions generally include octave but not 
> > octave-forge (Debian users don't have this problem thanks to Dirk). It 
> > would be nice to get octave-forge included in more distributions.
> >
> > --Quentin
>
> Second that!
> Jonathan Webster
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.
>
> Octave's home on the web:  http://www.octave.org
> How to fund new projects:  http://www.octave.org/funding.html
> Subscription information:  http://www.octave.org/archive.html
> -------------------------------------------------------------



-------------------------------------------------------------
Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Octave's home on the web:  http://www.octave.org
How to fund new projects:  http://www.octave.org/funding.html
Subscription information:  http://www.octave.org/archive.html
-------------------------------------------------------------