Re: Octave & QtOctave

[Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net>]

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Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Kei,
>
> Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net> writes:
>
> [...]
>>
>> Here are two tentative patches that make the changes we've discussed.
>> Also, should we make a deprecated-package definition for qtoctave?
>
> I think some additional changes related to "(assoc-ref inputs ..."
> needed to be made. Otherwise, looks good to me! Here is a patch I made
> earlier but it was not tested, feel free to cherry-pick what is needed:
>
> From 2b04caa66c17da257dfb4f4ccb94e8d629b95e53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 03:39:40 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Rename "octave" to "octave-cli" and "qtoctave" to
>  "octave".
>
> * gnu/packages/maths.scm (octave): Rename to octave-cli.
> [name]: Change to "octave-cli".
> (qtoctave): Rename to octave.
> [name]: Change to "octave".
> [inherit]: Inherit from octave-cli.
> [source]: Likewise.
> [inputs]: Likewise.
> [native-inputs]: Likewise.
> [arguments]: Likewise.
> (flann): Update accordingly.
> * gnu/packages/engineering.scm (qucs): Likewise.
> (qucs-s): Likewise.
> * gnu/packages/machine-learning.scm (shogun): Likewise.

...

> -         ("octave" ,octave)
> +         ("octave-cli" ,octave-cli)

I see the main difference is that you've replace the package's
associated string to "octave-cli" as well as the name, whereas I've only
replaced the package name. Should I replace the associated package
string, too?

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