Re: Mac OS Binary

[Alexander Hansen]

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> 
> Yes and no:
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> Yes: it doesn’t take much effort to set up a local tree.
> 
> No: you are now responsible for keeping the port up to date yourself, as 
> automatic updates are not applied to local Portfiles.
> 
> As far as comparing Fink vs. Homebrew vs. MacPorts, I could have benchmarked 
> that until about a year and a half ago. Before I updated my cluster to 
> Yosemite and installed MacPorts on all of the machines, I had all three 
> installed on identical machines (Mac Pro Nehalem). However, there are also 
> differences within each platform, depending in the variant built. For example 
> on my work office machine I have octave 
> @4.0.0_1+atlas+gcc49+glgui+gui+metis+qtgui. Building w/o atlas or 
> Metis/SuiteSparse will make a lot of difference in terms of performance. 
> Using different versions of gcc also may make a difference (not tested, I 
> have built octave 4.0.0 with gcc-4.8, gcc-4.9 and gcc-5).
> 
> Marius
> --
> Marius Schamschula
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I’d love to be able to get octave-4.0.x in Fink.  I’m just finding the number 
of free hours in the week to be insufficient. :-)  

One current advantage of using one of the package managers is when Octave Forge 
packages don’t build out of the box with “pkg install” and require porting to 
work on OS X.


-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison