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Re: Installation of 3.8.2 on Mac
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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso |
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Re: Installation of 3.8.2 on Mac |
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Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:30:30 -0500 |
On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 10:45 -0800, Clark Dunson wrote:
> To me the ideal goal on OSX would be to distribute the Octave.app
> through the Apple App Store.
This is impossible: Apple will not allow us to do this. Apple imposes
restrictions on the Apple App Store that are GPL-incompatible. Since
they most likely will refuse to get rid of their restrictions, they
therefore will refuse to comply with the GPL, and thus cannot
distribute Octave.
> As far as versioning of gcc, etc. goes, let XCode rule. Wouldn’t our
> lives be simpler if we had the App Store manage separate installs for
> Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, etc. than the mishmash we have
> now?
It would be. Can you convince Apple to allow us to do this? So far,
they forbid it.
- Jordi G. H.