[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #34667] Doc command can't find info files

[Clem]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #34667 (project octave):

I hate to be a nudge about this, but...

a. I'm trying to get a version of Octave that runs on the Mac on my Mac. 
There is no pre-built Mac version of 3.6 that I can find.

b. It is very hard to build Octave on one's own because of all the
dependencies on other packages that aren't already installed on the mac and
have to be downloaded and built and linked.  Not at all easy.  (I admit, I
haven't tried 3.6. so I will give it try now, but if 3.6 is anything like
3.4.3 it will be long drawn exercise in frustration.)

c. If the Octave community is to grow, some how we need to make sure that
everyone (on all supported platforms) has access to the latest version of
Octave.  With Stanford's last semester's free Machine Learning online class
(ml-class.org), several thousand people got involved, but the PC users were
stuck with an old version of Octave and were needlessly frustrated by blocking
bugs that were long fixed.  This gave a needlessly poor impression of Octave,
which really deserves better.

In the next semester, both the free Stanford Machine Learning and
Probabilistic Graph Model class (pgm-class.org) will attract thousands more
students who will be using Octave on both the PC and the Mac and it looks like
once again, they will be stuck with using out-dated versions of Octave.

What's the point of doing all the hard work to make Octave a better program
when very few people will be able to use it?  This is really too bad.

Please, can somebody get organized and make sure up-to-date binaries are
available?  (Octave seems to be the one open source project that I have the
most problems with getting the most recent version.)

btw, the README.MacOS isn't terribly helpful as it claims:

A MacOS bundle is available from sourceforge.

  http://octave.sourceforge.net/index.html

and I don't see newer than 3.4.0:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20MacOSX%20Binary/

Please can somebody help??

Many thanks in advance.

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