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

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #34667 (project octave):

Packaging is a different skill, knowledge set, etc. from numerical methods. 
I'm a developer, but I probably have less of a clue than you do on how to
build anything on a Mac platform.  I appreciate that there is a set of
potential users who could be enabled by a click once and install package, but
I don't know how to solve that problem technically.

There has been some talk on the Octave-Maintainers list about charging a
nominal fee for a Windows binary distribution.  This would support Octave and
also, hopefully, interest someone enough to do the packaging.  Maybe the same
thing can be done for Mac?  If you are interested in this approach I think it
would be good to post to the Octave-Maintainers list with your frustrations
and what you would consider reasonable compensation for having a Mac binary
distribution.

I know we have at least two regular developers who are using the Mac platform
so building from source really is a possibility.  They have also updated the
README.MacOs beyond the 3.4.0 version.  

Part of the problem is that there was a showstopper bug in 3.6.0 so the
project immediately moved to release 3.6.1.  Because of this, there hasn't
been a lot of publicity about the release of the 3.6.X series nor have there
been packagers willing to work on the 3.6.0 code.


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