Octave for Mac OSX

[Thomas Treichl]

Henry F. Mollet schrieb:
> Most recent announcement was for Octave 3.0.2 on 8/23/09 with URL
> http://octave.sourceforge.net .
> Henry
> 
> 
> on 10/31/08 11:17 AM, Dushan Mitrovich at dushanm at spinn.net wrote:
> 
>> I used to see announcements here, by Thomas Treichl, for the latest Octave
>> binaries for Mac OSX, but haven't seen any recently.  Are such binaries
>> still available, or does one need to compile them oneself?  If the latter,
>> wgere would I find instructions on how to do this?  Thanks.
>>
>> - Dushan Mitrovich

A reminder that I should do something ;)

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/...

Regards,

   Thomas

PS. meant for everyone working with Octave on MacOSX (I wanted to write this a 
long time ago but I never did):

Generally, I would be very happy if more people (who are working on the MacOSX 
platform) also would contribute to the Octave project and also try to build 
binaries on their own.

Octave.app formerly was meant to give people something that they just can use, 
it was not meant that everybody then should lean back and wait until packagers 
do the bugsearch, bugfix and all the packaging and testing job on their own.

I currently see a little bit more than a handful of people who are trying to 
help making Octave for MacOSX better by compiling the sources on their own and 
by reporting back if something doesn't work. Even more than this, they are 
trying to fix bugs and send back changesets to mailing-list!

It further doesn't matter if you choose sources and libraries from the Fink 
distribution, HMUG, Macports or Octave-Forge if you want to build your own 
Octave program for MacOSX, since we can all just profit from each other. The 
only but most important thing is that you please help making things work or help 
making things better on MacOSX.

Thanks for attention,

   Thomas