Re: Comments on the Mac installation instructions on the wiki

[Thomas Treichl]

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)....
>
> 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