From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Dec 9 18:35:46 2000 Subject: Re: The future of Octave From: Paul Kienzle To: Kevin Straight Cc: David Doolin , "John W. Eaton" , help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 17:27:52 +0000 On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 02:49:48PM -0800, Kevin Straight wrote: > 1) Of course a GUI would take a lot of our "limited resources". Our > resources are limited because for 9 years one person has been having to > run the whole show. We need a "Core Team" and a "GUI Team" who do there > own think (but talk to each other enough to avoid problems) Another point about the myth of "limited resources": we are not interchangeable. Those who have time do not necessarily have the specialized knowledge that it takes to write missing routines such as conjugate gradient minimization. I spent a good hunk of time in the library learning enough signal processing to attempt the signal processing toolbox. Sure I learned a lot in the process, but I'm not about to become enough of an expert in spline fitting to write a spline toolbox because it won't help me when I'm studying speech. More particularly, I don't need sophisticated spline functions. Given an existing GUI framework, though, and a need for some specific GUI feature, general programming knowledge ought to be enough for you to contribute something useful, especially if the appropriate widget already exists in the toolkit/application that we use. Or am I underestimating the amount of specialized programming knowledge one gets with a couple of degrees in computer science ;) > Paul Kienzle pkienzle at kienzle dot powernet dot co dot uk ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------