Re: Octave for Mac OSX

[Dushan Mitrovich]

Thomas Treichl <address@hidden> wrote:
> on 10/31/08 11:17 AM, Dushan Mitrovich at address@hidden wrote:
>> I used to see announcements here, by Thomas Treichl, for the latest Octave
>> binaries for Mac OSX, but haven't seen any recently.  Are such binaries
>> still available, or does one need to compile them oneself?  If the latter,
>> wgere would I find instructions on how to do this?  Thanks.
>
> A reminder that I should do something ;)
> 
> The 3.0.3 announcement will follow this weekend.  BTW, building
> Octave.app is not a secret.  The scripts that I'm preparing and that
> I'm using are all there at the Octave-Forge project in the path
> admin/MacOSX/...
> 
> Regards,
> 
>    Thomas

Thanks, I'll look at this and see if I can decypher it.
 
> PS. meant for everyone working with Octave on MacOSX (I wanted to write
> this a long time ago but I never did):
> 
> Generally, I would be very happy if more people (who are working on the
> MacOSX platform) also would contribute to the Octave project and also try
> to build binaries on their own.
> 
> Octave.app formerly was meant to give people something that they just can
> use, it was not meant that everybody then should lean back and wait until
> packagers do the bugsearch, bugfix and all the packaging and testing job
> on their own.
> 
> I currently see a little bit more than a handful of people who are trying
> to help making Octave for MacOSX better by compiling the sources on their
> own and by reporting back if something doesn't work.  Even more than
> this, they are trying to fix bugs and send back changesets to
> mailing-list!
> 
> It further doesn't matter if you choose sources and libraries from the
> Fink distribution, HMUG, Macports or Octave-Forge if you want to build
> your own Octave program for MacOSX, since we can all just profit from
> each other.  The only but most important thing is that you please help
> making things work or help making things better on MacOSX.
> 
> Thanks for attention,

Amen to that.  Probably won't be able to for a couple of months, but
after that, I'll try.

- Dushan