Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki

[Paul Kienzle]

On Apr 14, 2007, at 4:57 AM, David Bateman wrote:

> 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)....

You just need to include the build scripts in admin/osx.

I think we are safe listing the external package dependencies and
versions.  Otherwise we would have to include the tarballs
aquaterm, gnuplot, etc. and all of their dependencies freetype,
libpng, etc., plus the nonstandard build tools (readline, bison, ...).
You would need to include gcc as well since gfortran is not part
of the distributed operating system.  And octave of course.  Oh, and
we would need to update all of these for each octave-forge release.
We don't need to include Darwin sources though :-)

        - Paul