Re: octave forge packages on a mac

[Eric Barth]

Thanks for your quick reply.

I'm most interested in using the built-in ode solvers like ode23 etc which have similar calling sequence to MATLAB.  

many of our students go on to internships, jobs, and grad programs that use MATLAB for ODE modeling, and we want to prepare them for that.

For the past few years, I've used freemat with my students (those who don't buy a MATLAB student license) because of the ode23-like solver is implemented there, and because installation on mac and windows is identical.

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 6:00 PM c. <address@hidden> wrote:

On 24 Oct 2016, at 23:55, Eric Barth <address@hidden> wrote:

> I also have this problem.  I'm eager to use Octave 4.x with odepkg with my students in Ordinary Differential Equations class next term.  The key stumbling block is always ease-of-installation for mac users.
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> Is it workable for one of you kind developers to use pkg build and make an odepkg binary that mac using students can download along with Octave, thereby saving the added hassle for these novice users of compiling the package?
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> Thank you in advance for your kind consideration,
> Eric Barth

What methods do you intend to use from odepkg?
We are moving some methods direcly into core and those will require no additional installation fo course ...
c.