Re: Octave.app 3.2.3 for Mac OS X 10.4.x and 10.5.x

[Sebastian Schöps]

Hi,

I think that the installation of Octave.app is very easy and this is a 
clearly advantageous (thanks Thomas), but on the other hand, one can 
always build octave from MacPorts (so do I). This is just a bit more 
complicated and gives a tailored binary for your machine (even 64 bit). 
Maybe one could replace Octave.app by a new installation instruction for 
Macports? One could also add the application around the binary in 
Macports, if necessary.

Apropos 64 bit: I think there is a drawback when using octave compiled 
for the new Mac architecture, because FLTK cannot be build yet for 64 bit...

Anyway, I guess the building of Octave.app itself is not a big deal, but 
the testing and i cannot help here, since I prefer the self compiled 
installation.

Bye
Sebastian

Thomas Treichl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> by the end of this year I'll take a break from building future versions of
> Octave.app. If there is somebody out there who likes to do this job in the
> future then you're very welcome. The build scripts already are part of the
> Octave-Forge project so that you can have a look at them but maybe they need
> to be adapted to your Mac. I think that for many of you as for me Octave.app
> was and still is a useful ready-to-run program, so I must say that I'd also
> like to see future versions of it even if I'm not the one who builds them.
>
> For now, I have uploaded the compressed disc images *.dmg including
> Octave.app 3.2.3 for PPC and i386 MacOSX to the SourceForge's server.
> The system requirements for the PPC architecture are MacOSX 10.4.x or
> newer and a PPC G4 processor or better, for the i386 architecture MacOSX
> 10.4.x or 10.5.x. You can get it from http://octave.sourceforge.net.
>
> We have had more than 6600 downloads for Octave.app 3.2.2 the past 2 months.
> Now, if you find this program useful then please support its development. See
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