Re: Coursera: about Octave

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 13, 2012, at 9:34 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> On 12 December 2012 18:44,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> I would like to introduce myself as a Course Operations guy at
>> Coursera. I saw your post in threads about the difficulty of
>> installing Octave on the new Mac OSX. We would like to look into the
>> problem and work with GNU to make some fix here. Can you give me a
>> summary of the specific issues you've seen in installing Octave on
>> OSX?
> 
> We're having trouble creating a dmg for Octave. The situation is
> basically the following:
> 
>    http://wiki.octave.org/Create_a_MacOS_X_App_Bundle_Using_MacPorts
> 
> Ben Abbot (cc'ed here along with the Octave maintainers' list) has
> been doing most of this work. I'm sure he will be glad to have your
> help.
> 
> - Jordi G. H.

I am optimistic that I will be able to provide a DMG for the next release.  
There may be some lingering bugs in the bundle, so more testing is welcome.

        
http://wiki.octave.org/Create_a_MacOS_X_App_Bundle_Using_MacPorts#Testing

Ben