Re: Octave for Mac OSX (editing the Wiki)

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 2, 2008, at 12:40 AM, Rob Mahurin wrote:

> On Nov 1, 2008, at 6:31 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> > Rob,
> >
> > The contributers each follow their passions. There are many  
> > instances where I find the approach of others not quite to my  
> > liking. My solution (as is "Octave proper") is to do something  
> > about it myself. I agree it would be nice if Octave's documentation  
> > were a bit better. We are fortunate that some new contributers have  
> > begun taking on this task. However, there is still more work than  
> > can be easily handled by them. If there is some specific you don't  
> > think is getting the attention it deserves, please contribute. All  
> > Mac users (including myself) would surely appreciate you effort!
>
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> If I had write access to the wiki, I would add a paragraph like
>
> > The scripts used to build the octave-forge Octave.app can be found  
> > in <a href="http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/admin/MacOSX/ 
> > ">the sourceforge subversion repository</a>.
>
> to the section "Source-Compilation" of the page 
> http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForMac
>
> Cheers,
> Rob

The wiki certainly needs some work. For example this page below  
indicates that editing is not restricted, but as there have been some  
defacements, it obviously is not.

        http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?UserName

Perhaps David can give us some instruction on how to gain access.

Ben