Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki

[David Bateman]

Thomas Treichl wrote:

> - Who is interested to host MacOSX binary on server? OctaveForge?

Sure, why not host it on sourceforge, though I have two concerns

1) All binary releases of GPL code must have available all of the source
code needed to rebuild them. So you'll need a source code bundle ideally
 available from the same location as the binary itself. I'm not sure
what sourceforge policy is on distributed such bundles particularly for
programs like Octave with lots of external dependencies, its likely to
be rather large (if rarely downloaded)....

2) Isn't there other sites that Mac users know better as download
locations for MacOS binaries? In that case, wouldn't octave get better
exposure on one of these?

Regards
David