Why are you people getting involved in Scilab?................Use Octave. All the Matlab scripts and functions will work perfectly fine without any change(even in .m extension) unless some toolbox specific functions are used. In Scilab the Matlab .m files would first get converted into .sci(native format of Scilab) files. In this step itself, there may be some problems about compatibility. Then there are differences in syntax ranging from subtle to major resulting you to learn some new things. Anyway, now Scilab also is an open source software and is considered a good substitute for Matlab. I would recommend all Matlab users connected with IITDLUG to give a try to Octave for which one would have to install GnuOctave for the basic software and QtOctave for a good Matlab like front end. Both the softwares can be easily installed using synaptic package manager on Ubuntu by just clicking check boxes in Add-Remove program. Anyone already using Octave is welcome to share his or her experience. -Bapi M.Tech student Dept of Mathematics IITD
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:04 PM, gajendra khanna <[email protected]>wrote: > > Desist using scilab versions earlier than 5.x since they are non-free. > They were released under a licence which prohibited commercial > distribution of modified versions of Scilab. A truely free software > should not stop its use by anyone. Hence use Scilab 5.x only since the > newer licence is a free licence with the above referred clause > deleted. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Do you have another question? Click here - http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post Read archive - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
