Re: Mac OS Binary

[Carnë Draug]

On 14 November 2015 at 19:35, Sebastian <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> can you try the following Octave 4.0.0 build based on homebrew? It
> should run on >10.10. I will create a wiki-page once one of you has
> confirmed that the file is actually working...
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/f7gq5fe7badj40s/Octave-Installer.dmg?dl=0
>
> The final dmg will have a nice background, readme.txt, a GPL information
> and the list of dependencies that I have attached to this mail; after our
> discussion on the mailing list I consider this as sufficient for shipping.
>
> The creation of the dmg is totally automated (script attached), so we
> could offer daily builds of the development version if we like to.
>

This build is using GraphicsMagick built with quantum depth 8.  This
limits the image reading to 8bit per pixel.  It is a problem because
16 bit have been the norm in science for a long time, and even just
for photography they are getting increasingly common.

Since Octave is a scientific application, it makes sense to bump this
for this builds.

It is my understanding that it is enough to pass "with-quantum-depth-16"
to homebrew the installation of graphicsmagick.

I just reported a bug with homebrew to change this too [1].

Carnë

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/46101