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Re: Octave binary naming
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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso |
Subject: |
Re: Octave binary naming |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Oct 2013 11:52:20 -0400 |
On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 19:35 +0400, Dmitry Roshchin wrote:
> I want to split octave packages to "octave" (for terminal usage) and "octave-
> gui" (for users who want GUI). But in this case it's more logical to have
> "octave" binary instead of "octave-cli" for backward compatibility and
> "octave-gui". Are there any reasons for current naming?
The reasons is that octave should by default be linked to a GUI, and
the Octave binary can also be GUI-less if you pass it the --no-gui
option.
The only reason octave-cli exists is so that you can have a binary
that isn't linking to Qt, if for some reason you really don't want to
have the Qt libraries in memory when running Octave.
I recommend you keep the existing naming scheme and don't rename
"/usr/bin/octave" to "/usr/bin/octave-gui".
HTH,
- Jordi G. H.
- Octave binary naming, Dmitry Roshchin, 2013/10/04
- Re: Octave binary naming,
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <=
Re: Octave binary naming, John W. Eaton, 2013/10/04