Re: Integrating Quint into the Octave sources

[John Swensen]

On Apr 18, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Michael D Godfrey wrote:

> On 04/18/2011 08:43 AM, Jacob Dawid wrote:
>> Additionally, I think we should
>> be building one main program called "octave" with a command-line
>> option to allow users to disable starting the GUI when they want to
>> run Octave in a terminal.
> This is one of the major features of Matlab which causes users to switch to
> Octave.  Not a good idea.  It could well be a reason for many of us to
> return to Matlab.  Having read much of the recent discussion of this GUI 
> implementation I think it would be better to defer the plans for integration.
> 
> Michael
> 

I have never been a fan of making an Octave IDE part of the base Octave 
distribution (for any platform).  Since the way it is written right now, the 
IDE only need to link against Octave libraries I think it should always be a 
different package with the core Octave binary as a dependency.  They could also 
be distributed together if someone wanted to make a combined binary 
distribution for specific platforms (e.g. a Windows with both or an OSX .app 
with everything needed inside).  That being said, I don't see a problem with 
them being hosted in the same source tree and the IDE being conditionally 
enabled.