Re: gnuplot output from print?

[Søren Hauberg]

John W. Eaton skrev:
> On  6-Sep-2007, Søren Hauberg wrote:
>
> | This makes the error go away, but the resulting file is still called 
> | '=FILE.gp'.
>
> I fixed that.  It was an off-by-one error in the argument processing.
Works like a charm -- thanks!

> | So, if 
> | we drop gnuplot at some point in the future, we could still keep the 
> | support for printing to a gnuplot file (I guess, but the future will tell).
>
> Doing that would mean continuing to maintain the gnuplot-specific
> version of drawnow and the functions it calls.  Who will continue to
> maintain that?
>
> Although multiple graphics backends is a nice idea in theory, in
> practice is causes trouble because each of the backends will be
> slightly different, which means that it is likely that the behavior of
> graphics code will be different.  I see lots of user confusion
> resulting from that.
>
> Multiple backends that do mostly the same thing also means diluting
> our already scarce developer resources.
Of course you are right. I just see a lot of people on the lists that 
miss the old gnuplot specific features. Having a function that dumps a 
plot to a gnuplot file that people then can manipulate by hand, would 
make these people happy. But, I agree that this is a very low-priority 
feature that should be dropped the moment that nobody wants to maintain it.

Søren
> jwe