Re: Release Ideas

[John W. Eaton]

On 01/28/2015 02:50 PM, John Swensen wrote:

> I know it is a cop-out, but is it really too hard to ask people to go to a 
> terminal and type:

Yeah, I suspect it is.

> ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL 
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
>
> and then type:
> brew tap homebrew/science
> brew install gfortran
> brew update && brew upgrade
> brew install gcc
> brew install octave
>
> I know this is a bit harder, but for a "unsupported" platform it is still quite easy. The 
> only issue is that for the homebrew recipe that the gui is not the default and you have to run 
> "octave --force-gui"

How long does this process take for someone who is installing everything 
for the first time?

Even if you scripted this and put a pretty GUI "one-click" installer 
around it, I suspect most users would find it annoying that it takes 
possibly hours to install while the system is quite busy.

Also, if it is this simple to build Octave from homebrew, why do we see 
so many people complaining about how hard it is to build Octave for OS X?

Finally, if it is this simple, then why hasn't anyone turned the 
resulting binaries into a simple installer?  Is that part difficult?

jwe