Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki

[Matthias Brennwald]

On 14.04.2007, at 10:57, 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)....
>
> 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?

Uhm, I can only speak for myself, but sourceforge certainly is one of  
the better places to find software for my Mac...

Matthias




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