Re: Release Ideas

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On 28 Jan 2015, at 22:00, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

> I've done that myself. I even modified it to install as a relocatable bundle 
> ... but it wasn't an easy task. If we don't make it relocatable, is there a 
> way to enure there isn't a conflict?

The 3.8.0/3.8.2 .dmg/.mpkg distribution on Source Forge installs a full 
Macports tree in /usr/local/octave/<version number>
and a .app launcher in /Applications. The .app launcher can be moved anywhere 
but the actual binaries and libraries must
be in that path.

I can produce a similar distrbution for 4.0 with Mavericks and, according to 
feedback I have received for the 3.8.2, release
it will probably work on Yosemite as well.

The problem is that it almost certainly will not be able to install packages as 
the developer tools on Mavericks and Yosemite
are different versions.

I did not update to Yosemite yet and I will not be able to do so for a while as 
I found some code I use for my research work
will not build on Yosemite so I need to stick with Mavericks.

> Ben
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