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From: | Ben Abbott |
Subject: | Re: Octave for Mac OSX |
Date: | Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:31:15 -0400 |
On Nov 1, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Rob Mahurin wrote:
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
Thomas,Thanks for posting the info. When I encounter problems building via Fink I often thought it would be nice if your scripts were readily available ... and they are! I'll be referencing them next time I have problems.
Rob,The contributers each follow their passions. There are many instances where I find the approach of others not quite to my liking. My solution (as is "Octave proper") is to do something about it myself. I agree it would be nice if Octave's documentation were a bit better. We are fortunate that some new contributers have begun taking on this task. However, there is still more work than can be easily handled by them. If there is some specific you don't think is getting the attention it deserves, please contribute. All Mac users (including myself) would surely appreciate you effort!
Ben
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