Re: Which version of Octave?

[Joe Koski]

Thanks to all for their suggestions on how to install the latest Octave and
octave-forge under Panther on a Mac. As soon as I feel a bit more
comfortable with the (new to me) bash shell, I think I'll try to build
Octave 2.1.57, perhaps from cvs. So far, I have the developer tools (gcc),
X11, and g77 successfully installed and tested. A bash manual is in the mail
from Amazon. Stay tuned...

Joe Koski
 
on 3/22/04 4:00 PM, Per Persson at address@hidden wrote:

> 
> On Mar 20, 2004, at 23:35, Joe Koski wrote:
> 
>> OK, my new dual processor G5 Mac with OS X 10.3.3 is up and running,
>> and I
>> want to install a newer version of Octave. If Per, Paul, Guarav, and
>> other
>> Mac users could provide some advice, I'd greatly appreciate it.
>> 
>> One of the scripts that I need to convert uses 3D matrices, so I
>> probably
>> need something relatively new. How about 2.1.55 vs. 2.1.57? Which
>> multi-dimension version of octave has had the most polishing and bug
>> fixes?
>> I also need a compatible version of octave-forge. Recommendations? (as
>> of
>> today, anyway)
>> 
>> I would prefer to avoid installing Fink, although that may become my
>> easiest
>> route. What's available in the Mac compatible world? Are there now make
>> files that work unchanged with newer Macs available? How current are
>> the
>> DarwinPorts versions? How current is the HPC binary version, and does
>> it
>> support dynamic linking and octave-forge? I would prefer to install
>> into
>> /usr/local if possible.
> 
> DarwinPorts just got updated to 2.1.55.
> It doesn't use fftw since fftw3 wasn't available until after after the
> 2.1.55 patch was submitted.
> I have a Portfile for 2.1.57 ready that I'm about to submit, but it may
> be some time before it gets commited.
> Let me know if you want it already.
> 
> WRT octave-forge, there were some problems with 2.1.57 that have been
> fixed in CVS IIRC, check the lists.
> 
> /Per
> 



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