Re: Integrating Quint into the Octave sources

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 04/19/2011 12:59 PM, James Cloos wrote:
> Wouldn't it be easier to make --gui the option and cli the default?
>
> That avoids incompatible changes.  And most users who might want a gui
> be default probably start octave via a .desktop file or other menu item;
> those file can use a --gui option easier than existing scripts can add
> a --no-gui option.

How about having the executable (sym)linked under two names, say octave
and octave-gui, and code in the main() that looks at argv[0] and does
the expected thing according to the name Octave was called under?
I think this would work on Linux/Unix, Mac and Windows.

Doing it this way is essentially equivalent to using commandlines, but
it seems easier to explain to the end-user and avoids the shebang issues 
John mentioned.