Re: Introduction and Question

[Ben Abbott]

Phil, please don't top post. We favor bottom posting so that those joining the 
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On Jun 2, 2012, at 9:33 PM, Phillips, Scott (phillis8) wrote:

> ________________________________________
> From: Ben Abbott address@hidden
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> To: Phillips, Scott (phillis8)
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> Subject: Re: Introduction and Question
> 
>> On Jun 2, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Phillips, Scott (phillis8) wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello all:
>>> 
>>> I am a new developer (registered a little over a week ago). I was looking 
>>> at the list of ideas on the wiki and wondering if anyone knew which ones 
>>> were principally Octave/MATLAB coding, and which were C++. I can program in 
>>> C, but my Octave/MATLAB skills are a lot better :).
>>> 
>>> Just a thought, because I use MATLAB at work. How hard would it be to make 
>>> Octave use "end" instead of "endif", "endwhile", "endswitch", etc? I think 
>>> that the MATLAB incompatibilities are what is preventing Octave from taking 
>>> over the science/engineering programming market.
>>> 
>>> Zygomorphic
>> 
>> Octave can use "end" instead of "endif", "endfor", etc.
>> 
>> I addition to the projects on the wiki, you may want to take a look at the 
>> bug tracker.
>> 
>>        https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave
>> 
>> Fixing bugs is a good place to get familiar with Octave.
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Thanks Ben, I now have one other question:
> 
> What distro of LINUX would you recommend building on? I am running Fedora 17, 
> but I have issues with compiling the source. It appears to build, but there 
> are errors in the documentation making process. Thanks.

Most of my work is on MacOS. I also run Ubuntu via VirtualBox.

I have no experience with Fedora, but there are others who do use Fedora.

Please tell us where you obtained your sources, what commands you used to 
build, and what error your encountered.

There are some instructions at the links below.

        http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Build_from_source

        
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Installation.html#Installation

Ben