Re: Choosing graphics backend for documentation

[Mike Miller]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 06:30:53 -0700, Sebastian Schöps wrote:
> Then let me propose the following: why not shipping the source distribution
> (as the compiled ones) with a compiled manual? This would relax the osmesa
> dependency. Hard core developers may anyway build from hg.

This has already been the case for a long time :) Indeed it is expected
that users downloading an official source distribution only compile
Octave and the manual is already ready to go.

Users who want a bleeding edge daily build of the source distribution
can get it from our hydra autobuilder:

  https://hydra.nixos.org/job/gnu/octave-default/tarball/latest

-- 
mike