Re: Octave-maintainers Digest, Vol 77, Issue 75

[c.]

Hi,
Just my two cents on some of the issues you point out,
I'm sure that Jordi will give a more detailed answer soon.

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> Finally, it would be also nice if there's a standard page for helping
> someone walk through installation for Octave on various platforms; we wrote
> up one at https://class.coursera.org/ml/wiki/view?page=OctaveInstallation ,
> but I think I'm still ran into some issues with plotting on a Mac.

We do have a page for that on the Octave wiki:
http://wiki.octave.org/Main_Page#Installation_Instructions_for_Windows.2C_MacOS_X_and_GNU.2FLinux
it would be better to direct students there and help us improve that page
if  the information there is incomplete rather than create a separate duplicate
page.

> 
> p/s: We recently got an email from a student saying that they had a problem
> running Octave on his Mac with Mountain Lion -- just thought I'd pass it
> on. https://class.coursera.org/ml/forum/search?q=octave is also a good
> place to look for issues and how other students helped to resolve them.

Similar issues have recently been discussed on Octave's mailing lists [1], here 
too
I believe directing students to one place where they can get answers and direct
help from experienced Octave users and developers would be the best choice.

Carlo.

[1] see for example this thread: 
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Octave-and-the-new-Mountain-Lion-Operating-System-tp4631903.html