[Pkg-octave-devel] Collaborative effort for the migration to Octave 3.6

[Sébastien Villemot]

Juan Pablo Carbajal <carbajal at ifi.uzh.ch> writes:

> Anyway I noticed that qtoctave is still packaged. Is there any update
> on that project that seems rather abandoned?
>
> We have many bug due to the way qtoctave was implemented. And since
> now the GUI is under dev, I think is time to drop qtoctave? I wouldn't
> know if that is even polite, so if it is not, please forgive me. But I
> thought it was good to let you know that as far as Octave goes,
> qtOctave is not helping alot.

Yes, we are aware that qtoctave is dead and therefore we will inevitably
drop it at some point.

I would personally prefer to keep it in Debian as long as there is no
other alternative, i.e. as long as the Octave GUI has not been
released.

-- 
Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
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