Octave for Mac OSX

Thomas Treichl Thomas.Treichl at gmx.net
Sun Nov 2 15:24:59 CST 2008


Ben Abbott schrieb:
> On Nov 2, 2008, at 12:40 AM, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 1, 2008, at 6:31 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>> 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!
>>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> If I had write access to the wiki, I would add a paragraph like
>>
>>> The scripts used to build the octave-forge Octave.app can be found  
>>> in <a href="http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/admin/MacOSX/ 
>>> ">the sourceforge subversion repository</a>.
>> to the section "Source-Compilation" of the page http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForMac
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rob
> 
> I didn't get the external html reference quite right, but it is there  
> now. To obtain I password I emailed the octave-forge developers email  
> list as Søren recommended, and obtained the password a few hours later.
> 
> Hopefully someone can instruct me on the proper way of specifying  
> exteral links to the Octave Wiki. I did try the html approach you  
> provided, but it did not work. Next I tried the method documented by  
> Wikipedia which is the one I saved.
> 
> Ben

Looks good Ben. Seems to be the right thing to do ;)

   Thomas



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