GNU Octave 3.8 With Its GUI Officially Announced

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNU Octave 3.8 With Its GUI Officially Announced

Several days ago I had written about GNU Octave 3.8, the latest major update to the open-source high-level numerical computational language commonly used in replacement of MATLAB. Back then I wrote about the features and that the official release was available from the FTP server, while a few hours ago the official release finally took place...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTU1NzQ

[tuke81]

hmm there's been gui since octave version 3.6.2(windows binaries even use it since then). And gui seems to be Qt based.

[vick]

Does this include a debugger like MATLAB?

hmm there's been gui since octave version 3.6.2(windows binaries even use it since then). And gui seems to be Qt based.

Based on that FAQ, this is the first official GUI that's part of the Octave project.

None of the GUIs for Octave that have been developed thus far are part of Octave and there is a reason for it. All of them fail at a very important point, integration with Octave. They treat Octave as a foreign black box using pipes for communication, an approach that is bound to eventually fail. This includes QtOctave (now abandoned and incompatible with newer versions of Octave), Xoctave (which is proprietary and commercial) and GUI Octave (which is proprietary and the author is not interested to share his code to preserve its "artistic integrity").

Quint was a project for an Octave GUI that actually tried to do it right. Eventually it was merged into the Octave repository and is now under development under the name Octave GUI (this is not a separate project anymore, it is simply the Octave GUI and not to be confused with the completely unrelated but similarly-named, GUI Octave project).

So it looks like this official GUI release is based off Quint.

[tuke81]

Does this include a debugger like MATLAB?

Based on that FAQ, this is the first official GUI that's part of the Octave project.

So it looks like this official GUI release is based off Quint.

You mean that play stop debugger in that m-file editor, then yes it has:


Well yes octave gui has same code and developers that quint had.

[vick]

You mean that play stop debugger in that m-file editor, then yes it has:


Well yes octave gui has same code and developers that quint had.

Thanks for the info! In MATLAB, it's nice to easily place breakpoints, run, continue, modify variables in the main terminal, etc. when writing a script. Glad that Octave is getting this feature. Before, you had to manually edit your code to create something like a breakpoint.