GUI work (was: Graphical help browser)

[John Swensen]

On Nov 25, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Jonathan Stickel wrote:

>
> On 11/25/08 octave-maintainers-request at cae.wisc.edu wrote:
>
> It seems you have something that is fairly functional.  It has been  
> a long time since I used Matlab's IDE, but I remember it was helpful  
> to use items 2-3, which you say are 100% complete.  Would you mind  
> making a version release on the project's sourceforge site?  I am  
> capable of downloading the cvs/svn code, but I bet you will see a  
> bit more use, testing, and feedback if you make a release.
>
> Jonathan

I took your suggestion and made a source code release on Sourceforge.  https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=176034&package_id=202369&release_id=644740
I marked it at version 0.2, since the version included in the 3.0.1  
Windows release was marked 0.1.  Since I took the time to get 'make  
dist' working, it should be easier to make source code releases in the  
future.  This version has the ability to compile in my simple help  
browser.  The following configure options are relevant:

--with-octave300		This is for 3.0.x versions of Octave
--without-octave300    (default) This is for recent Mercurial snapshots

--with-webkit			(default) This compiles in the webkit based help  
browser (also requires Xapian)
--without-webkit		This doesn't compile in the help browser.

I am not an autotools wizard, so I couldn't figure out how to do a pkg- 
config check that is platform dependent.  For some reason on Ubuntu,  
the webkit pkgconfig is different that other Linux and OSX platforms I  
have worked on.  Help would be appreciated.

John Swensen