GUI [was: Re: Possible (summer of code) projects for Octave)

[Thomas Yengst]

Not so much a GUI, but what Octave needs is a Workspace (in Matlab's sense) 
that shows variables, dimensions, bytes, etc. Sure, one can always type "whos", 
but that gets tiresome.

I would also like to see functionality in the pkg command to check whether each 
installed package is the most up to date. 'pkg list' nicely shows what is 
installed. Has anyone thought of adding the capability to do something akin to 
'pkg update' whereby the current installed version is compared with the latest 
on octave-forge.

Tom