Re: graphics future

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Apr-2007, Shai Ayal wrote:

| The high level implementation would be compatible. The low level
| objects would not be. Is that so bad for the time being?

It is not bad as a temporary solution.  As I said, I don't expect this
to be 100% compatible for Octave 3.0.

| Also, even matlab provides the "old" interface: look at the bottom of:
| 
http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/creating_plots/f7-45202.html#f7-47175
| which seems to suggest the there is a lot of old code lying about.
| So we can implement the "v6" interface  which will also work with
| current matlab, and not be compatible with the "v7" interface for the
| time being

I'd prefer to avoid implementing obsolete interfaces which we will
then have to change anyway.

jwe