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Re: 3.6.0 release
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Ben Abbott |
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Re: 3.6.0 release |
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Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:49:16 -0500 |
On Nov 25, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Lukas Reichlin wrote:
> On 25.11.2011, at 14:07, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
>
>> On Nov 25, 2011, at 13:49 , ext Joaquim Luis wrote:
>>
>>> Than the honest thing to do is to assume that and put clearly on the Octave
>>> page that Windows is not supported.
>>
>> That would mean the Octave does not even compile on Windows. That would be
>> going too far. Maybe the Octave page should just state that binary packages
>> (on all platforms) are to be found elsewhere (links provided, but no promise
>> that newest release is to be found there).
>>
>> Having said that, I think that having binary packages for OSX and Windows is
>> very important for Octave. I came on board with 3.2 on Windows and used the
>> it to do my matlab assignments on my Ph.D. studies, while everyone else was
>> using matlab...
>>
>> Jarno
>
> I agree on the second paragraph. Without Thomas Treichls Octave.app, I
> wouldn't have started to use octave and there wouldn't be a revised control
> package.
>
> There should be an installer for Windows and an app for OSX. I mean a single,
> self-contained binary without the need to install Cygwin or the "App Stores"
> Macports and Fink with all their dependencies. The situation on Linux is
> different to the situation on non-free systems Windows and Mac. The standard
> way of obtaining software is the package manager, so users get the binaries
> from the Linux distributors. Some have recent packages (Fedora) while others
> have not (Debian -> Ubuntu).
>
> Even if none of the octave developers wants to maintain binaries for Windows
> and Mac, attention should be spent that one can build octave on these systems
> without writing patches first.
>
> Lukas
I would hope there are enough MacOS users / developers who follow this list
that we should be able to automate the process for creating an app-bundle.
If that is going to happen, we'll need to a thread for that purpose, and a few
committed volunteers.
Ben
- 3.6.0 release, John W. Eaton, 2011/11/22
- Re: 3.6.0 release, Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso, 2011/11/22
- Re: 3.6.0 release, John W. Eaton, 2011/11/24
- Re: 3.6.0 release, Joaquim Luis, 2011/11/24
- Re: 3.6.0 release, John W. Eaton, 2011/11/25
- Re: 3.6.0 release, Joaquim Luis, 2011/11/25
- Re: 3.6.0 release, Jarno Rajahalme, 2011/11/25
- Re: 3.6.0 release, Lukas Reichlin, 2011/11/25
- Re: 3.6.0 release,
Ben Abbott <=
- Re: 3.6.0 release, J. Luis, 2011/11/26
- Re: Bus error with Octave built with Homebrew/MacOSX, Ben Abbott, 2011/11/26
- Re: Bus error with Octave built with Homebrew/MacOSX, J. Luis, 2011/11/26
- Re: Bus error with Octave built with Homebrew/MacOSX, Ben Abbott, 2011/11/26
- Re: 3.6.0 release, Alexander Hansen, 2011/11/24
- Re: 3.6.0 release, John W. Eaton, 2011/11/25
- Re: 3.6.0 release, Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso, 2011/11/24
- Re: 3.6.0 release, John W. Eaton, 2011/11/25
- Re: 3.6.0 release, Orion Poplawski, 2011/11/28
- Re: 3.6.0 release, marco atzeri, 2011/11/25