Hi, I have uploaded the compressed disc images *.dmg including Octave.app 3.2.0 for PPC and i386 MacOSX to the SourceForge's server. The system requirements for the PPC architecture are MacOSX 10.4.x or newer and a PPC G4 processor or better, for the i386 architecture MacOSX 10.4.x or newer. You can get it from http://octave.sourceforge.net.
We have had more than 4300 downloads for Octave.app 3.0.5 the past 2 months. Now, if you find this program useful then please support its development by contributing to the Octave core development team. See http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html for more information about how you can help. There have been a lot of changes since Octave 3.0.x. I will summarize the major changes for Octave.app 3.2.0 on MacOSX, but for a full list of changes I suggest that you read John W. Eaton's announcement of GNU Octave 3.2.0 at http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2009-June/014659.html - I have reworked the Readme.html file of the compressed disc images for Octave.app completely. Please let me know if I forgot something or if you have any suggestions to make them even better. - I have created another selfmade Gnuplot.app version 4.2.5 that can be found in the 'Extras' directory of the compressed disc images. I also added a reworked Readme.html file for Gnuplot.app. - Octave.app and Gnuplot.app now require MacOSX version 10.4.x on both platforms. I will no longer build future versions of Octave.app (3.2.0 or higher) for PPC against SDK 10.3.9 because of missing and outdated libraries of the MacOSX 10.3.9 system. - Octave.app and Gnuplot.app now can be installed in any place of your filesystem. As long as both programs will be installed in the same directory Octave.app will automatically find and use Gnuplot.app as the graphics backend (even if you have installed another gnuplot binary somewhere else). - All Fortran sources of the necessary libraries and GNU Octave 3.2.0 have been compiled with the g95 Fortran compiler (stable version 0.91, March 2008 available from www.g95.org for 10.4.x systems). The f2c/fort77 Fortran compiler combination that has been used in the 2.9.x and 3.0.x series of Octave.app will no longer be used for Octave.app 3.2.0 or higher. - GNU Octave 3.2.0 now comes with the "eigs" function that uses the Arpack library in the background. There is no need to install Octave-Forge's Arpack package anymore. - GNU Octave 3.2.0 now comes with the "image" function and others. The image function uses the GraphicksMagic library. I compiled GraphicsMagick with support for further external libraries libjpeg, libpng and libtiff but there are still many more backends available with GraphicksMagick, cf. http://www.graphicsmagick.org/formats.html. I did not compile GraphicsMagick against *all* available *external* libraries, cf. "Add-On Libraries & Programs" at http://www.graphicsmagick.org/README.html. - GNU Octave 3.2.0 now comes with an alternative builtin OpenGL-based graphics backend. You can switch to the new backend with the command backend ("fltk"); Switch back to the Gnuplot default backend with the command __remove_fltk__ (); backend ("gnuplot"); - There currently are known problems with the OpenGL-based graphics backend on the Mac platform that need to be fixed: Calling 'exit' or 'clear all' if backend ("fltk") is active crashes Octave.app, the workaround for this is to call __remove_fltk__ (); before you call 'exit' or 'clear all' or you register this function to be called before exit with 'atexit ("__remove_fltk__")'. Resizing graphics windows with the mouse currently doesn't work. The workaround for this is to use the get and set functions instead, for example get (gcf, 'position'); set (gcf, 'position', [A(1:2), A(3:4) .* 1.5]); - If you want to help developing GNU Octave with the latest sources available and if you want to use Octave.app for doing so then consider using the shell script 'selfupdate.sh' which is available in the SVN repository beside all other Octave.app build scripts at http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/admin/MacOSX/Octave.app Before you use this script I recommend that you *carefully* read all the comments inside. - The md5 check sums of the compressed disc images are: MD5 (octave-3.2.0-i386.dmg) = 2ad5d7e824395c7a2910bce99f29a9dc MD5 (octave-3.2.0-ppc.dmg) = 4d84bb238db40755876a9f68215a8085 That's it from my side, enjoy, Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
