Re: Woctave-another gui front end

[Dimitri Maziuk]

On 12/20/2012 10:12 AM, Nicholas Jankowski wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:07 AM, c. <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 20 Dec 2012, at 15:49, edmund ronald wrote:
>
>      >  simply because the time to get it
>      > to work is 3 or four days which is more than a Matlab license would
>      > cost
>
>     Would you agree to pay the cost of a few Matlab licences to have a
>     proper OSX dmg installer for Octave?
>     If so, I think we can probably find someone to do the job (well
>     actually someone has the job almost dome already,
>     the money would indeed motivate him to complete it).
>     c.
>
>
> that's purchasing a service rather than making an acquisition. although
> equal in dollar value, those costs are not equal in the eyes of many
> organizations.

If you believe you make an acquisition when you pay for software you're 
delusional. Yes, many organizations are.
(E.g. you pay for matlab, you have to pay again next year.)

Speaking of Windows and gooeys, the only usable cross-platform gui is 
java. There is this java program called jedit that we've been using for 
years, it's a "programmer's" text editor with plugin hooks and a large 
number of plugins. Has tabbed buffers, split views, rectangular 
copy-paste, a ton of plugins incl. IDE-type ones already available. 
Anyone heard of it?

Dima