Re: Octave and the new Mountain Lion Operating System

[John B. Thoo]

Hello, Ben.

On Jul 30, 2012, at 5:36 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> If you've installed one of the old application bundles for Octave from 
> SourceForge, they *may* no longer work correctly due to Apple no longer 
> including X11 with MacOS 10.8.
> 
> [...snip,snip...]
> 
>  I recommend you install a new Octave using Fink.

I have Octave 3.2.3 installed from binary (.dmg).  I recently upgraded to Lion 
(10.7.4).  Do you recommend that from now on I use Octave installed using Fink? 
 Should I delete the previous binary first?  What about Gnuplot?  Anything else?

Thanks very much.

---John.

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