[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59426] Horizontal widget positons not persistent

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #47, bug #59426 (project octave):

Works OK with Qt back to 5.14.2.

Yesterday I upgraded one of my Linux boxes to Mageia 8, which includes Qt
5.15.2, and guess what: now the problem exists there :-(

[OT]
No discussion about mxe-octave's intended purpose. But as it stands it's
remarkably flexible. In the past I have fiddled quite a bit with mxe-octave,
it has many unexpected "potentials".

In my perception package managers work primarily for compiled/prebuilt
packages, a situation where dependencies are vital and fairly fragile.
mxe-octave however works with source packages, implying dependencies should be
resolved more easily & the build process is more robust.
The dependencies in the various .mk files seem to be reasonably complete,
AFAICS 'make <target>' picks up changed packages and dependencies as it
should. E.g., just delete a basic building block entry in installed-packages/,
type 'make zipdist' and watch the dependency build circus unfold.

So I was thinking more about say, having a package-to-be-uninstalled extracted
by mxe-octave, maybe have it patched if patch files exist, and then in the
tmp-<package> subdir run 'make uninstall', followed by deleting the
installed-packages/ entry. Something along those lines.
Undoubtedly there'll be snags to be sorted out; no reason to not try to get it
working.
BTW, thinking of it, a step I mentioned above (deleting the pertinent
installed-packages/ entries) might be exactly what I forgot last time. But I'm
unsure if that was the fatal blow.


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