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Re: [PATCH] gnu: octave: Update to 4.0.2.
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Efraim Flashner |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] gnu: octave: Update to 4.0.2. |
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Wed, 18 May 2016 20:23:03 +0300 |
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Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) |
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:43:01PM -0300, David Pirotte wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > Small update for GNU Octave. Hopefully in the future we can include the
> > GUI.
>
> I'm not a guix developer, neither a guix user yet, but I follow #guix
> and
> this list, to get prepared :) and read good advice and good guile
> scheme techniques...
>
> So, starting with version 4.0.x, octave _does_ include a GUI by default, and
> it
> launches itself using this GUI by default [which is a terrible shame afaic,
> but
> that's not the opinion of the octave developers].
>
> So the GUI is in your package, and people who would want to use octave the
> good old
> way, in a terminal or in emacs inferior mode much launch it with the --no-gui
> option.
>
> Hope this info is useful,
> David
What toolchain do they use to build the GUI? There isn't anything listed
in the inputs like gtk+-2 (as seems standard for GNU projects).
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