Re: Binary packages for 3.8

[Lukas Reichlin]

On 25.10.2013, at 09:59, "c." <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> On 25 Oct 2013, at 04:14, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> You are correct, it does not run on Lion (MacOS 10.7.5).
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Ben,
> 
> That was unfortunately expected.
> I'd be curious to try see whether that can be fixed a posteriori.
> Could you try running the Octave binary in the bundle from the 
> command line to see whether you get any informative error message?
> 
> I would try both
> 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Contents/Octave      # use the startup script in the 
> bundle
> 
> and 
> 
> /Applications/Octave.app/Resources/bin/octave # run the binary directly
> 
> Thanks,
> c.
> 
> P.S. Jordi, does your mac have Mountain Lion (10.8)? Could you try the app 
> yourself?
> 
> 

3.7.7+ runs for me on OS X 10.8.5, but only if it is placed in /Applications 
and not in a subfolder of /Applications. I noticed that the editor doesn't 
recognize Octave keywords like elseif, endif and endfunction. In the editor 
styles settings, an Octave tab is missing as well.

Lukas