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). -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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