On 6/1/06, Waldemar Kornewald <wkornew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
How difficult would it be to put a GUI around some command-line app, library, or stripped-down math suite (SciLab, Maxima, Octave, sorry, I don't know something *small* :)).
POSIX P1003.2/D11's bc. The GNU implementation is pretty slick, and I don't think the GPL would be an issue there. And there's a X11 GUI for it: http://x-bc.sourceforge.net/
I'm sure we can adapt it for our needs. Or even rewrite the UI code from scratch to serve the rest of the OS' elegance ;)
But having bc as a backend is probably a good idea. 65k, links to curses, readline and libc. So it's a tad larger than 65k, but it's definitely some order of magnitudes smaller than a math suite :)
