Re: Octave for Mac OSX?

[Marius Schamschula]

Vic,

On Sep 3, 2015, at 2:02 PM, Vic Norton <address@hidden> wrote:

> What is the situation with Octave for Mac OSX?
> 1. Are their any ports of Octave 3.8 to OSX 10.10?
> 2. Are their any ports of Octave 4.0 to OSX 10.10?
> 3. How about OSX 10.11 when it comes out this fall?
> 4. Has anybody tried the VM installer for OSX 10.10 mentioned on
>     http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_MacOS_X
>   Is that the only recourse for OSX 10.10 or 10.11?
> 
> I'm really not worried about Octave 4.0, but I have to have at least
> 3.8. Functions within functions, which are required by my work, don't
> work in Octave versions < 3.8.
> 
> Any answers would be greatly appreciated. I'm on Mac OSX 10.9 right now,
> and my Octave 3.8.2 works fine. I will forgo buying a new iMac this fall
> if I know Octave won't work on Mac OSX 10.11.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vic

The current MacPorts version of Octave is 3.8.2. This works fine with Yosemite.

I have submitted a ticket https://trac.macports.org/ticket/48622 with an update 
to Octave 4.0.0, based on Sebastian Schöps’ Homebrew patch. I currently running 
this on all my 10.9 and 10.10 machines.

El Capitan is another matter: At this time, several dependencies are not 
satisfied, if attempting to build a GUI version of Octave. I do have an non-GUI 
install of Octave 4.0.0 installed under 10.11.

I also have MacPorts running on a 10.8 VM. Installing Octave on a 10.9/10.10 VM 
should work as well.

Marius
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