Re: How to download the gui on the Mecurial repository and requirements

[Michael Goffioul]

2011/12/20 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
> On 20 December 2011 17:47, Michael Goffioul <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Note that you don't have to recompile octave from the gui branch. You
>> can perfectly compile just the gui-part of the gui branch against an
>> octave built from the default branch (this is what I actually do).
>
> The gui and default branch are practically the same thing, except the
> gui branch has an extra directory.

Indeed. I was just mentioning that, because I know compiling octave
under Windows takes ages. So if Tatsuro already have a compiled octave
from the default branch (and I suppose he does), then there's no need
to recompile octave once again from the gui branch.

> The GUI branch was created mostly
> to not interfere with the stable release. Now that the code has moved
> to stable, I think it may be time to merge the gui branch onto
> default, get rid of the gui branch, and start to think ahead of how to
> actually release the GUI for Octave 4.0... or is this too crazy?

That makes sense to me.

Michael.