Re: Installation of 3.8.2 on Mac

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Nov 26, 2014, at 8:52 AM, c. <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> On 26 Nov 2014, at 17:24, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> I think the easiest thing for you would be to install a Debian or
>> Ubuntu virtual machine with Octave in it. I am sorry that Mac OS X
>> makes it difficult to install Octave. I hope to fix it at some point,
>> but Apple doesn't make it easy.
>> 
>> - Jordi G. H.
> 
> Hi Jordi,
> 
> I'm CC'ing Bradley from the macports project with whom 
> we discussed a plan to fix this kind of problem for more
> than just Octave.
> 
> The plan is to add to macports the functionality to create
> relocatable .app bundles from a given package and its complete
> list of dependencies.
> 
> Our idea was to propose this as a project for GSoC 2015,
> but if you would like to help us get started now that's of course
> good as well.
> 
> c.

Hi Carlo,

Any chance of getting some history of what has been tried and the results?

I see the "Octave Maintainers List <address@hidden>", would this be a good list 
for me to follow Mac OS X issues?

--
Brad

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