Octave.app for MacOSX released

[Thomas Treichl]

Hi everybody,

months ago we were talking about an Octave binary release for Mac OS X users at 
one of the Octave mailing-lists. Now time has come to present a first release 
candidate of Octave.app. Users that are interested in this ready-to-run binary 
package can download a compressed *.dmg image at 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2888 for either PPC or 
i386. The minimum system requirements for Octave.app are PPC OS X version 10.3 
or i386 OS X version 10.4.

NOTE: If you're a long-term user of Octave or a beginner in any case please read 
the Readme.html file that comes with your *.dmg. Octave.app has some known 
limitations but also has some features that you might want to use. We also do 
know that there may be further problems at least with PPC 10.3 OS X versions 
(because it is a cross-compiled product of my own i386 Mac) that are not 
documented in the Readme.html file and we strongly need help from everybody 
fixing these bugs (so please give it a try looking for what is going wrong on 
your system). Also note that we packed the available octave-2.9.12 sources and 
not a current CVS snapshot ie. there may be problems in Octave.app that have 
already been reported at one of Octave's mailing-lists and also have already 
been fixed and can be found in the current CVS.

Finally I'd like to say,' thanks everybody who make Octave and it's packages 
even possible' and further I'd especially like to thank Paul for answering tons 
of my spam I sent to him, giving me motivation to not break during this quest 
and finally hacking some code of the build-scripts that make a PPC version 
generally available.

That's it from my side,

  Thomas