Bug#341906: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#341906: octave prints copyright/debugging information on stdout instead of stderr

[Frederik Eaton]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:52:24AM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  4-Dec-2005, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> 
> | On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 10:17:01AM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> | > On  4-Dec-2005, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> | > 
> | > | By the way, why not have -q be the default when octave is run as part
> | > | of a script?
> | > 
> | > What do you mean by "as part of a script"?
> | 
> | i.e. when you put "#!/usr/bin/octave" at the top of a file with octave
> | code in it.
> 
> How would Octave be able to know that it has been started in this way?
> As far as I know, the only information Octave gets is what is passed
> to it in argv.  In this case, the kernel (or the shell) starts Octave
> with whatever follows the #!, plus the name of the script file.  So I
> think you have to include the -q yourself.
> 
> Now, if you mean you would prefer to have every noninteractive
> invocation of Octave omit the copyright notice, then that would be
> possible.  I don't see the reason it is needed, since -q is available.
> But if you'd like to try convince me why this is important or
> necessary, then please use the maintainers at octave.org list.  Also, to
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It's not a big deal. I think this (and the other things I mentioned)
would be simple positive improvements, but they're not worth arguing
about if you don't agree.

Frederik