Re: Octave for Mac OSX

[Rob Mahurin]

On Nov 1, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Thomas Treichl wrote:
> The 3.0.3 announcement will follow this weekend. BTW, building  
> Octave.app is not a secret. The scripts that I'm preparing and that  
> I'm using are all there at the Octave-Forge project in the path  
> admin/MacOSX/...

Not secret, but not easy to find either.  The wiki instructions at  
http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForMac don't seem to mention the  
octave-forge scripts.  The download pages linked on http:// 
octave.sourceforge.net have binaries, but not source.  If you follow  
the "SVN" link to http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=2888 , there  
is some boilerplate generic checkout command, a warning that you  
probably don't want _everything_, and --- aha! --- a smallish link to  
"browse the repository".  From here I can make myself a tarball from  
another well-hidden link.

It's a far cry from e.g. octave proper, where a page called  
"download" has a link in a colored box at the top of the page.

Cheers,
Rob

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Rob Mahurin
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