Re: Octave for Mac OSX?

[Vic Norton]

On Sep 3, 2015, at 3:15 PM, Marius Schamschula <address@hidden> wrote:

> Vic,
> 
> On Sep 3, 2015, at 2:02 PM, Vic Norton <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> What is the situation with Octave for Mac OSX?
>> 1. Are their any ports of Octave 3.8 to OSX 10.10?
>> 2. Are their any ports of Octave 4.0 to OSX 10.10?
>> 3. How about OSX 10.11 when it comes out this fall?
>> 4. Has anybody tried the VM installer for OSX 10.10 mentioned on
>>    http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_MacOS_X
>>  Is that the only recourse for OSX 10.10 or 10.11?
>> 
>> I'm really not worried about Octave 4.0, but I have to have at least
>> 3.8. Functions within functions, which are required by my work, don't
>> work in Octave versions < 3.8.
>> 
>> Any answers would be greatly appreciated. I'm on Mac OSX 10.9 right now,
>> and my Octave 3.8.2 works fine. I will forgo buying a new iMac this fall
>> if I know Octave won't work on Mac OSX 10.11.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Vic
> 
> The current MacPorts version of Octave is 3.8.2. This works fine with 
> Yosemite.
> 
> I have submitted a ticket https://trac.macports.org/ticket/48622 with an 
> update to Octave 4.0.0, based on Sebastian Schöps’ Homebrew patch. I 
> currently running this on all my 10.9 and 10.10 machines.
> 
> El Capitan is another matter: At this time, several dependencies are not 
> satisfied, if attempting to build a GUI version of Octave. I do have an 
> non-GUI install of Octave 4.0.0 installed under 10.11.
> 
> I also have MacPorts running on a 10.8 VM. Installing Octave on a 10.9/10.10 
> VM should work as well.
> 
> Marius
> --
> Marius Schamschula

On Sep 3, 2015, at 3:18 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

> 3.8.2 is available via Fink, Macports, and Homebrew (I think).
> 
> I am able to build Octave 4.0.x on Mac OS 10.10.5 using Fink for 
> dependencies. However, the sources must be patched.
> 
> Ben

Thanks Marius and Ben. I guess I'll have to wait to see how things play out. I 
am certainly not interested in buying a computer that makes Octave inaccessible.

I'm a mathematician, not a computer geek. Any time I have to patch software 
together to make it work that software is inaccessible by definition.

Regards,

Vic