Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:48:55 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: utisoft@googlemail.com Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scilab depends on certain java packages Message-ID: <d873d5be0909221348r2023e681tec1c07e8e2b12daf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <0016365eeb15669eed047430905b@google.com> References: <d873d5be0909221141k337664acp3d3c2272f642938@mail.gmail.com> <0016365eeb15669eed047430905b@google.com>
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On 9/22/09, utisoft@googlemail.com <utisoft@googlemail.com> wrote: ... > > Thanks for that, I've gone and made four new ports before I got your reply! Well, at that rate you may as well do them all. ;) > Never mind, I suppose I could just submit those and depend on them, I think > they should do well. I'll submit this as scilab5 when it's done, but I'll > look at making some OPTIONS to change some configure args; it is possible > to disable the GUI, as you've discovered. > > Was Scilab 4's GUI not based on Java then? No, it's "official" GUI was tk-based -- not very slick, but easy to change and not resource-hungry. They also distributed a GTK+-2-based GUI. A lot of the effort behind the new version seems to have gone into the Java GUI and graphics -- I hope it was worth the trouble, but I suspect otherwise. b.
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