Re: Octave for Mac OSX

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 1, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Rob Mahurin wrote:

> On Nov 1, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Thomas Treichl wrote:
> > The 3.0.3 announcement will follow this weekend. BTW, building
> > Octave.app is not a secret. The scripts that I'm preparing and that
> > I'm using are all there at the Octave-Forge project in the path
> > admin/MacOSX/...
>
> Not secret, but not easy to find either.  The wiki instructions at
> http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForMac don't seem to mention the
> octave-forge scripts.  The download pages linked on http://
> octave.sourceforge.net have binaries, but not source.  If you follow
> the "SVN" link to http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=2888 , there
> is some boilerplate generic checkout command, a warning that you
> probably don't want _everything_, and --- aha! --- a smallish link to
> "browse the repository".  From here I can make myself a tarball from
> another well-hidden link.
>
> It's a far cry from e.g. octave proper, where a page called
> "download" has a link in a colored box at the top of the page.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob

Thomas,

Thanks for posting the info. When I encounter problems building via  
Fink I often thought it would be nice if your scripts were readily  
available ... and they are! I'll be referencing them next time I have  
problems.

Rob,

The contributers each follow their passions. There are many instances  
where I find the approach of others not quite to my liking. My  
solution (as is "Octave proper") is to do something about it myself. I  
agree it would be nice if Octave's documentation were a bit better. We  
are fortunate that some new contributers have begun taking on this  
task. However, there is still more work than can be easily handled by  
them. If there is some specific you don't think is getting the  
attention it deserves, please contribute. All Mac users (including  
myself) would surely appreciate you effort!

Ben