Re: [OctDev] Da Coda Al Fine, etc.

[Paul K. <pki...@ja...>]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 02:05:38PM -0500, Matthew W. Roberts wrote:
> I was checking the home page and found that one of our links is bad:
> 
> Da Coda Al Fine: Pushing Octave's Limits
> http://www.hammersmith-consulting.com/octave/coda/coda.html
> 
> Either they've been hacked, or have started a completely new line of
> business.  I'm taking the link down.  Anyone know a good link?

He stopped his consulting business.  

> 
> Also, it seems there was talk about putting the web page into the
> CVS tree.  Was that ever done?  If not, I can do it -- where would
> be the best place to put it?

IIRC we are permitted to put up his documents.  Put them in the doc
directory.  Make a subdirectory if appropriate.  Documentation for each
toolbox should be in the toolbox directory itself, reserving the doc
directory for documents about octave generally or the octave-forge
project as a whole.  Of course, doing this means writing documentation
for each toolbox . . .

> 
> One more question -- I thought I had seen a SourceForge project for
> an octave GUI.  Anyone else heard of such a thing?

There is GOctave which is a GTK front end.  It hasn't been touched in over
a year though.  I've looked at it but can't say that I buy into it.  Since
I want to be able to write GUI numerical applications, the GUI support
which we can use with octave should be powerful enough that the GUI
interface is just an example script.

Since reinventing tcl/tk inside octave seems silly, I propose instead a
hybrid solution, with tcl providing the GUI and octave the numerics.  I
hope to be able to release what I've been working with sometime in the
next couple of weeks, but it will be probably be several months before I
can "put up or shut up" with an octave console written in tcl.

- Paul