[Pkg-octave-devel] Manpages for octave-cli and octave-gui
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at laboissiere.net
Thu Jan 2 22:49:00 UTC 2014
* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> [2014-01-02 20:56]:
> * Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> [2014-01-02 10:28]:
>>
>> However, there will be still octave-cli installed into bin. Since
>> the Debian Policy requires that every program in /usr/bin/ have a
>> man page, I kept the octave-cli.1.gz link and patched the octave.1
>> man page to read:
>>
>> DESCRIPTION
>> Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical com‐
>> putations. It provides convenient command line (octave-cli command)
>> and graphical user (octave command) interfaces for solving linear and
>> nonlinear problems numerically.
>>
>> Would this change be appropriate for the upstream sources?
>
> The text above clearly does not reflect the situation of the final
> 3.8.0 release, since the octave command launches the CLI. I am right
> now working on a more accurate text.
I just committed the changes. It reads now:
SYNOPSIS
octave [options]... [file]
octave-cli [options]... [file]
DESCRIPTION
Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical com‐
putations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving
linear and nonlinear problems numerically. It also provides a graphi‐
cal user interface that can be launched with the command octave
--force-gui. The octave-cli command is a synonym for the octave com‐
mand, except for the fact that option --force-gui will not work with
it.
Rafael
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