Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-12-08 Thread Kei Kebreau
Kei Kebreau writes: > Alex Vong writes: > >> Kei Kebreau writes: >> >>> Alex Vong writes: >>> Kei Kebreau writes: > Alex Vong writes: > >> Hello Kei, >> >> Kei Kebreau writes: >> >> [...] >>> >>> Here are two tentative patches that make the chan

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-12-07 Thread Kei Kebreau
Alex Vong writes: > Kei Kebreau writes: > >> Alex Vong writes: >> >>> Kei Kebreau writes: >>> Alex Vong writes: > Hello Kei, > > Kei Kebreau writes: > > [...] >> >> Here are two tentative patches that make the changes we've discussed. >> Also, should

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-12-06 Thread Alex Vong
Kei Kebreau writes: > Alex Vong writes: > >> Kei Kebreau writes: >> >>> Alex Vong writes: >>> Hello Kei, Kei Kebreau writes: [...] > > Here are two tentative patches that make the changes we've discussed. > Also, should we make a deprecated-package definit

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-12-06 Thread Kei Kebreau
Alex Vong writes: > Kei Kebreau writes: > >> Alex Vong writes: >> >>> Hello Kei, >>> >>> Kei Kebreau writes: >>> >>> [...] Here are two tentative patches that make the changes we've discussed. Also, should we make a deprecated-package definition for qtoctave? >>> >>> I think som

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-12-05 Thread Alex Vong
Kei Kebreau writes: > Alex Vong writes: > >> Hello Kei, >> >> Kei Kebreau writes: >> >> [...] >>> >>> Here are two tentative patches that make the changes we've discussed. >>> Also, should we make a deprecated-package definition for qtoctave? >> >> I think some additional changes related to "(a

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-12-04 Thread Kei Kebreau
Alex Vong writes: > Hello Kei, > > Kei Kebreau writes: > > [...] >> >> Here are two tentative patches that make the changes we've discussed. >> Also, should we make a deprecated-package definition for qtoctave? > > I think some additional changes related to "(assoc-ref inputs ..." > needed to be

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-12-04 Thread Alex Vong
Hello Kei, Kei Kebreau writes: [...] > > Here are two tentative patches that make the changes we've discussed. > Also, should we make a deprecated-package definition for qtoctave? I think some additional changes related to "(assoc-ref inputs ..." needed to be made. Otherwise, looks good to me!

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-12-02 Thread Kei Kebreau
swedebugia writes: > On 2018-12-02 20:28, Kei Kebreau wrote: > snip > >> Here are two tentative patches that make the changes we've discussed. > > Nice > >> Also, should we make a deprecated-package definition for qtoctave? > > Yes, that sounds like a good idea to me. Here's the new second patch

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-12-02 Thread swedebugia
On 2018-12-02 20:28, Kei Kebreau wrote: snip Here are two tentative patches that make the changes we've discussed. Nice Also, should we make a deprecated-package definition for qtoctave? Yes, that sounds like a good idea to me. -- Cheers Swedebugia

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-12-02 Thread Kei Kebreau
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Kei Kebreau skribis: > >> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> n...@n0.is skribis: >>> names for packages are (mostly) random, although in some cases following classiifcations (see python-*, r-*, ...). >>> >>> That randomn

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-12-02 Thread Kei Kebreau
swedebugia writes: > On 2018-11-28 11:47, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Kei Kebreau skribis: > snip > >>> >>> I agree with ng0 that Octave and its GUI interface should be kept in >>> separate packages, as the difference in size is more than 5000 MiB. >>> I also agree that the GUI package should be n

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-11-29 Thread swedebugia
On 2018-11-28 11:47, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Kei Kebreau skribis: snip I agree with ng0 that Octave and its GUI interface should be kept in separate packages, as the difference in size is more than 5000 MiB. I also agree that the GUI package should be named "octave", but I don't know whether

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-11-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Kei Kebreau skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Hello, >> >> n...@n0.is skribis: >> >>> names for packages are (mostly) random, although in some >>> cases following classiifcations (see python-*, r-*, ...). >> >> That randomness is very limited in practice, if I may. :-) >> >>

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-11-27 Thread Kei Kebreau
Hello all, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello, > > n...@n0.is skribis: > >> names for packages are (mostly) random, although in some >> cases following classiifcations (see python-*, r-*, ...). > > That randomness is very limited in practice, if I may. :-) > > https://gnu.org/softw

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-11-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, n...@n0.is skribis: > names for packages are (mostly) random, although in some > cases following classiifcations (see python-*, r-*, ...). That randomness is very limited in practice, if I may. :-) https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Package-Naming.html “qtoctave” was a

Re: Should we rename qtoctave to octave and octave to octave-cli? (was Re: Octave & QtOctave)

2018-11-25 Thread Brett Gilio
Alex Vong writes: > n...@n0.is writes: > >> names for packages are (mostly) random, although in some >> cases following classiifcations (see python-*, r-*, ...). >> > I am thinking that should we rename qtoctave to octave and octave to > octave-cli (or octave-minimal)? > > Firstly, a new user wa

Should we rename qtoctave to octave and octave to octave-cli? (was Re: Octave & QtOctave)

2018-11-25 Thread Alex Vong
n...@n0.is writes: > names for packages are (mostly) random, although in some > cases following classiifcations (see python-*, r-*, ...). > I am thinking that should we rename qtoctave to octave and octave to octave-cli (or octave-minimal)? Firstly, a new user wanting to install octave will proba

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-11-24 Thread ng0
names for packages are (mostly) random, although in some cases following classiifcations (see python-*, r-*, ...). The Qt part of Octave is a separate package because making it just an output would still pull in Qt and the size difference is huge. Alex Vong transcribed 856 bytes: > Hello, > > Br

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-11-24 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, Brett Gilio writes: > Hey all, > > Happy guix birthday! > > Quick question, why is the octave package split up into two different > public definitions, rather than just having the QtOctave-GUI being a > "gui" output, like it is for transmissionBT and some others? > I would also want to kn