[Pkg-octave-devel] RFS: QtOctave -- A Qt front-end to Octave

[Thomas Weber]

Am Donnerstag, 21. Juni 2007 22:51 schrieb Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso:
> It hasn't been compiled for Octave 2.9, has it? Problems with bad VTK
> documentation? Or is there something else behind #401608?

0.4.6 is the first release meant for 2.9. I actually didn't want to package it 
like it is because the build process takes ages. OTOH, while I do have the 
CMake book now (thanks to our library), I don't know when I will have time to 
tackle this. 

> I have access to some of the old VTK books in my library, if that helps...
We have one VTK book in my group and the other one in the library. However, 
these books are crap (sorry). I once wanted to use VTK and there was even an 
image of a head as an example in the book (which was more or less what I 
needed). However, this piece of XXX didn't explain how to get these images.
And I agree totally with J. Chang's review of VTK's User's Guide at Amazon ...

If you want, you can give the 0.4.6 release a try (I know it builds fine). A 
few things:
Normally the recommended way of building with CMake is an out-of-source build. 
That doesn't work with Octaviz, you must build in-source. Expect a build time 
of an hour even on a 3 GHz machine. If you have some knowledge with it, try 
using precompiled headers, that might speed things up.

	Thomas