Re: Mac OS Binary

[Marius Schamschula]

On Nov 19, 2015, at 9:07 AM, Ray Zimmerman <address@hidden> wrote:

> With previous versions of Octave, I’ve used MacPorts. Does anyone know the 
> status of the MacPorts port for Octave 4?
> 
>     Ray
> 
> 
>> On Nov 18, 2015, at 5:15 PM, vicnorton <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for your advice, Sebastian. I guess I will go the Homebrew route. My 
>> son, Thane, who is an Apple programmer but not an Octave user per se, had no 
>> trouble installing Octave 4.0.0_1 on a Mac. 
>> 
>> - 
>> Vic 
>> 
>> On Nov 18, 2015, at 2:52 PM, Sebastian Schöps [via Octave] <[hidden email]> 
>> wrote: 
>> 
>> > vicnorton wrote 
>> > I'll be getting a new i5 iMac in a few days (OSX 10.11), Sebastian. Will 
>> > your installer work on this. I'd certainly prefer a good binary to the 
>> > Homebrew route. 
>> > 
>> > Vic 
>> > I believe yes. The binary works great with El Capitan (OSX 10.11). There 
>> > are strange bugs with 10.10 that I am trying to fix right now (it seems 
>> > qt4 is guilty but I do not see how). However, I would still recommend the 
>> > homebrew route. It's actually quite easy and more flexible. I am creating 
>> > the binary mainly for very inexperienced users. Let's chat about this once 
>> > your Mac has arrived :) 
>> > 
>> > Sebastian 
>> 
>> On Nov 18, 2015, at 3:19 PM, Thane Norton III <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>> 
>> > Worked for me, but I am not using a standard Xcode build or a standard OS. 
>> > 
>> > ==> Summary 
>> > 🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/octave/4.0.0_1: 2178 files, 53M 
>> > brew install homebrew/science/octave  8833.47s user 1664.10s system 255% 
>> > cpu 1:08:27.07 total 
>> 
>> 
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> 

Ray,

See https://trac.macports.org/ticket/48622

I’m not the MacPorts octave maintainer, but I’ve been using octave 4.0.0 built 
using a local Portfile MacPorts on all my machines for the last three months.

Marius
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