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From: | Thomas Treichl |
Subject: | Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki |
Date: | Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:44:42 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) |
Marius Schamschula schrieb:
On Apr 14, 2007, at 3:57 AM, David Bateman wrote:Thomas Treichl wrote:- Who is interested to host MacOSX binary on server? OctaveForge?Sure, why not host it on sourceforge, though I have two concerns 1) All binary releases of GPL code must have available all of the source code needed to rebuild them. So you'll need a source code bundle ideally available from the same location as the binary itself. I'm not sure what sourceforge policy is on distributed such bundles particularly for programs like Octave with lots of external dependencies, its likely to be rather large (if rarely downloaded)....
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That's why everything at hmug.org comes with all the source code. However, many projects hosted at SourceForge have .dmg disk image with the installer. I have not paid enough attention to tell if all include the source code as well. Some certainly do, while others may not (not everything at SourceForge is under GPL). For an octave.app release this would certainly involve a number of packages. It could be in a directory with a number of gzipped tarballs, or as a .pkg installer file.
Ok, right. I meant: wouldn't it be good to host all the binary releases of octave on one web site (there is a Redmond binary available that was created with MSVC, isn't it on David's page?) and to tell people from the octave web site or from the octave-forge web site where to get these binaries?
What about your experiences with the Redmond binary? How did you solve these?
2) Isn't there other sites that Mac users know better as download locations for MacOS binaries? In that case, wouldn't octave get better exposure on one of these?New Mac software is usually announced at VersionTracker and MacUpdate. Thus, a large number of potential users will be made aware of new releases. Also note that Freshmeat has a Mac OS X section as well.Marius
Okay I check these pages, but I'd like to have one adress for different binaries of one package...
I was also asked offside the list, why not use the terminal.app instead of the X11/xterm. I think this would be a good idea, maybe there is one dependency automatically solved then.
So long, Thomas
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