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Re: QTOctave and Octave 3.4
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Uwe Brauer |
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Re: QTOctave and Octave 3.4 |
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Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:10:48 +0200 |
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> 2011/10/17 Uwe Brauer <address@hidden>:
> Then help us. Clone the Octave Mercurial sources and work on the gui
> branch. It's Qt, which is one of the nicest languages you can derive
> from C++ (strictly speaking, Qt is a new language derived from C++).
I'd love to but I have almost no knowledge of qt or C++, the
only help I can offer for the octave project is to try to
improve the octave support for (X)emacs, since I have lisp
knowledge. The dumb terminal problem and the debugging seems
to me the most urgent. (However I don't have the feeling
that a lot of people are keen to use (X)Emacs anyway.)
> There isn't much more I can tell you. I know it's a problem, but we
> need help solving it. Talk is cheap. Let's write some code.
Well this RMS[1] approach were fully justified if we would
start from scratch.
However there was a GUI (or 2 if your count GUI Octave) so
breaking it, without having a substitute seems to me a bad
design decision. It will *definitely not* enhance the user
base, well you could argue that the GUI attracts mostly
newbies, or beginner anyhow but not advanced coders or even
developers.
There is a German saying: better to have a roof with holes
that having no roof at all.
There is no change to roll back and make the old GUI work
again? At least till there is a new (of course much better)
GUI?
Uwe
Footnotes:
[1] or ESR: shut up and how me your code.
- QTOctave and Octave 3.4, octaveuser001, 2011/10/17
- Re: QTOctave and Octave 3.4, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2011/10/17
- Re: QTOctave and Octave 3.4, Uwe Brauer, 2011/10/17
- Re: QTOctave and Octave 3.4, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2011/10/17
- Re: QTOctave and Octave 3.4,
Uwe Brauer <=
- Re: QTOctave and Octave 3.4, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2011/10/18
- Re: QTOctave and Octave 3.4, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2011/10/18
- Re: QTOctave and Octave 3.4, Uwe Brauer, 2011/10/19
- Re: QTOctave and Octave 3.4, Uwe Brauer, 2011/10/19
Re: QTOctave and Octave 3.4, Balogh Richard, Ing., 2011/10/18