Re: Octave on Reddit

[Søren Hauberg]

ons, 29 09 2010 kl. 09:14 -0500, skrev Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso:
> 2010/9/29 Judd Storrs <address@hidden>:
> > 2010/9/29 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
> >> It's really sad to read the comments, though. Many suggest to use
> >> other things instead of Octave, and many others say that Octave is
> >> irreparably inferior as compared to Matlab.
> >
> > I think it's probably relevant that many commenters seem to be
> > responding to a first exposure to Octave on Windows, which IMHO, does
> > suck.
> 
> Do you think QtOctave can help with this perception? While I don't
> think that QtOctave nor any other glorified terminal is inherently
> useful, psychology can go a long way. At the moment, QtOctave is
> teetering at the brink of abandonment, and I have half a mind to fork
> it, based on the belief that Qt produces the most native-looking
> cross-platform look and feel.
> 
> Something really has to be done about communicating via pipes with
> Octave, though, something more like what OctaveDE does.

I really think it would be better to spend GUI-related energy on
OctaveDE as it has the support of other active Octave contributors. Our
development resources are just so scarce that it's a shame to spend
energy on two projects trying to accomplish the same thing.

Just my two cents,
Soren