README.MacOS

[John W. Eaton]

On 23-Jan-2011, Ben Abbott wrote:

| I've edited the README.MacOS file to include instructions on using MacPorts.
| 
| I'm not a MacPorts user so I may have some things wrong.
| 
| Corrections and/or constructive critique would be appreciated.

| 1. General Users
| ================
| 
| A MacOS bundle is available from sourceforge.
| 
|   http://octave.sourceforge.net/index.html
| 
| There are also Octave packages available from both Fink and MacPorts.  Each
| of these package managers handle the details of compiling Octave from source.
| 
|   http://www.finkproject.com
|   http://www.macports.org/

Users might also want to build from source for various reasons.  They
will probably want to build using a stable release rather than using
the sources from the Mercurial archive.  So you might rename this
first section "Easy to install Binary Releases" (or similar) and the
section for Developers could be renamed "Building from Source" and
then explain where and how to get the sources from Mercurial (you
could just point to the instructions on savannah) and also that stable
releases are availble from ftp.gnu.org in the directory
pub/gnu/octave.  Then I think the only difference in the directions
would be that once you've got the sources you should skip the
autogen.sh step if you are building from sources downloaded in a tar
file.

jwe