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Distribute an AppData for Octave as suggested by freedesktop.org (bug #40356) * etc/octave.appdata.ml: AppData file for Octave. * Makefile.am: add AppData to EXTRA_DIST.
author Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org>
date Wed, 23 Oct 2013 19:48:30 +0100
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1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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2 <!--
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3 Copyright (C) 2013 Carnë Draug
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5 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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7 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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8 (at your option) any later version.
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10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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13 GNU General Public License for more details.
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15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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16 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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18 <application>
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19 <id type="desktop">octave.desktop</id>
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20 <licence>GPLv3+</licence>
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21 <name>GNU Octave</name>
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22 <summary>Interactive programming environment for numerical computations</summary>
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23 <description>
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24 <p>
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25 GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for
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26 numerical computations. It provides capabilities for the numerical
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27 solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing other
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28 numerical experiments. It also provides extensive graphics capabilities
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29 for data visualization and manipulation. Octave is normally used through
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30 its interactive command line interface, but it can also be used to write
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31 non-interactive programs. The Octave language is quite similar to
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32 Matlab so that most programs are easily portable.
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33 </p>
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34 <p>
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35 Octave has extensive tools for solving common numerical linear algebra
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36 problems, finding the roots of nonlinear equations, integrating ordinary
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37 functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary
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38 differential and differential-algebraic equations. It is easily
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39 extensible and customizable via user-defined functions written in
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40 Octave's own language, or using dynamically loaded modules written in
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41 C++, C, Fortran, or other languages.
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42 </p>
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43 </description>
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44 <screenshots>
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45 <!--
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46 From: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/
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47 All screenshots should have a 16:9 aspect ratio, and should have
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48 a width that is no smaller than 620px. Screenshots should be in PNG
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49 or JPEG format. PNG is the preferred format.
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51 <screenshot type="default">http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/images/screenshot.png</screenshot>
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52 </screenshots>
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53 <url type="homepage">http://www.octave.org</url>
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54 <updatecontact>maintainers@octave.org</updatecontact>
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55 <project_group>GNU</project_group>
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56 </application>