Re: Problem installing packages

[c.]

On 29 May 2012, at 14:24, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> For this reason, I would like to at least de-emphasise pkg install as
> the method we should be suggesting for people to install packages. I
> wish we could tell them to first try to find compiled packages for
> their system, and if that fails (there are no packages, or the
> compiled package has bugs that affect this particular user, or they're
> already using a system where source compilation is the preferred
> distribution method), then *as a fallback* we suggest using pkg
> install.

It would indeed be good to be able to get binay versions of all OF packages
for all systems.

At the moment though, on OSX for example, we don't even have a reliable
binary distribution of the current release of Octave core.

What makes you think we will find enough manpower to build and maintain all the 
binary 
packages?

c.