Re: Testers needed for an Octave-3.6.1 app (X86_64 only) bundle for MacOS

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 1, 2012, at 9:28 PM, Liam Groener wrote:

> On Mar 1, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
>> I've put together a *large* X86_64 app bundle for MacOS X. The DMG is about 
>> 300MB, and will expand to almost 1GB.
>> 
>> Its runs on MacOS 10.7 (Lion) on an i7 based Macbook Pro. It may only run on 
>> an i7 processor ... and/or only on MacOS 10.7.
>> 
>> If anyone is interested in giving it a test-drive, I've started an upload to 
>> my DropBox. The public link is below.
>> 
>>      http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14845154/Octave-3.6.1.app.dmg
>> 
>> If you give it a try, please let me know if it runs, if plotting works, your 
>> Mac's processor, and the MacOS version your Mac runs. These last two bits of 
>> info are available from "About This Mac".
> 
> I installed it on both my MacBook Air (core 2 duo) and my iMac (i7), both 
> running OS X 10.7.3. Ran a simple plot (plot(1:10)) on each with both gnuplot 
> and fltk. All worked as expected. I'll let you know if any problems pop up 
> latter. Let me know if you want me to test anything specific.
> 
> Liam G.

Thanks Liam.

I had tried on Core 2 duo running Snow Leopard, but it failed. That box also 
has Fink installed, while the app is built via MacPorts.

Do you have Fink or MacPorts  (other pkg manager?) installed?

Ben