Re: GUI integration

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 02/20/2013 01:53 PM, Ruud Schilder wrote:
> Dear octave maintainers,
>
> I am interested in participating in the further development of octave, in 
> particular the GUI development.
>
> I just build octave 3.6.3 (running mac os 10.8.2) succesfully, after which I 
> found out about the developer version that is available.
>
> I am wondering if the GUI enabled developer version works on my operating 
> system, and if so, should I completely uninstall my current version first 
> before installing the developer version?

Ruud.  One can create multiple versions in separate directories and run 
without installing using the local executable "run-octave".  So you can 
have multiple projects ongoing if you like.  It's also possible to build 
the object files in a directory separate from the source code, which 
often is convenient.  Just be organized with directory names for the 
various clones for various projects (i.e., changesets).  You'll need to 
learn Mercurial (hg diff, hg status, hg commit, hg rollback, etc.).

Dan