Users might also want to build from source for various reasons. They
>>> will probably want to build using a stable release rather than using
>>> the sources from the Mercurial archive. So you might rename this
>>> first section "Easy to install Binary Releases" (or similar) and the
>>> section for Developers could be renamed "Building from Source" and
>>> then explain where and how to get the sources from Mercurial (you
>>> could just point to the instructions on savannah) and also that stable
>>> releases are availble from ftp.gnu.org in the directory
>>> pub/gnu/octave. Then I think the only difference in the directions
>>> would be that once you've got the sources you should skip the
>>> autogen.sh step if you are building from sources downloaded in a tar
>>> file.
>>>
>>> jwe