On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 4:51 PM, José Matos <jama...@fc.up.pt> wrote: > Please note octave FAQ > http://wiki.octave.org/FAQ#Why_did_you_create_yet_another_GUI_instead_of_making_one_that_already_exists_better.3F > > In this case the important thing is the last (and a half) paragraph: > > "Also, many bits from QtOctave were reused in the GUI. > > QtOctave was a great and very useful tool. It looked beautiful and we are > thankful to its developers for working on such a nice tool. However, it would > have never been stable as it was. But most of all, the developers made it > free software so we could reuse large chunks of it which were incorporated in > what is now the Octave GUI." > > Notice also that the octave GUI, that is now the default, was also released > for version 3.8 more than 1.5 years ago in that in my usage, I use it in > classes, it is more stable than qtoctave ever was. Before that I have used > qtoctave so I am aware of the problems presented by qtoctave.
Then it's better to retire qtoctave in Fedora while adding Obsoletes tag to octave main package. Yours sincerely, Christopher Meng http://cicku.me -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
