FEniCS and Octave

[Andrew Janke]

Hi, Octave folks,

Are any of y'all familiar enough with FEniCS use in Octave (particularly 
with the fem-fenics or msh Octave Forge packages) to tell me a bit about 
how large its user base is (especially on Mac), and what would make for 
a good Octave-oriented distribution of FEniCS?

I'm deciding whether to bundle FEniCS and its dependencies with the 
Octave.app distribution (http://octave-app.org/) so fem-fenics, msh, and 
other things that require FEniCS work out of the box, without users 
having to install their dependencies separately.

Installing FEniCS on Mac seems to be somewhat difficult, so this would 
be a service to any Mac Octave + FEniCS users. On the other hand, that 
also means it would be significant work for me, so I don't want to do it 
if it wouldn't actually benefit anyone.

Cheers,
Andrew