Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:49:08 +0000 From: utisoft@googlemail.com To: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com>, utisoft@googlemail.com Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Scilab depends on certain java packages Message-ID: <000e0ce0d63669605b04743191aa@google.com> In-Reply-To: <d873d5be0909221348r2023e681tec1c07e8e2b12daf@mail.gmail.com>
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On 22 Sep 2009 21:48, "bf" <bf1783@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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. ;) Done! > > 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. We'll find out soon, hopefully! Chris
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