Re: [fink-core] Running Octave from Fink?

[Sergei Steshenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Alexander Hansen <address@hidden>
> To: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
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> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 7:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [fink-core] Running Octave from Fink?
> 
> On 11/12/12 7:44 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>>  I don't think the issue here is a GPL violation at all. I was only
>>  slightly alarmed it might be, but I'm not anymore.
>> 
>>  The real issue is that in order to give free programs to users of Mac
>>  OS X we are first asking them to install a non-free compiler and agree
>>  to its restrictive terms. That they are already running a non-free OS
>>  isn't any reason to ask them to submit themselves to further
>>  restrictions.
>> 
>>  - Jordi G. H.
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> 
> Right.
> 
> The issues here are:
> 
> 1)  Fink, Homebrew, and Macports are fundamentally source-based, so they
> don't provide binaries.
> 
> 2)  Octave doesn't have official OS X binaries currently.
> 
> 3)  We  don't know of a workable free alternate build toolset.
> 
> 4)  OS X users who want Octave need to get it _somehow_.
> 
> 5)  Nobody has time to work on issues 1-3. :-)
> -- 
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
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"5)  Nobody has time to work on issues 1-3. :-)" - and it _really_ good - 
people care more about _practical_ benefits (getting Octave somehow) than GNU 
ideology.

Regards,
  Sergei.