Re: Updated octave_plot_compare

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Andreas Weber 

> For your question because 4.6 vs 5.0: Do we drop support for 4.6 in the
> next release or is the goal to support both? I'm running debian stable
> which currently ships gnuplot 4.6.
> 

I only use ubuntu and lububtu for linux distribution.

I have installed lubuntu 16.04 to a PC. Default gnuplot version is 4.6.6.
And it also have gnuplot5 packages and their version is 5.0.3.

However, ubuntu 14.04 LTS, which is still used by many people, does not have
gnuplot 5.0 in official repo. nor ppa.

So I think that we cannot drop support for gnuplot 4.6.

​If this distribution did not get around to update to a newer version

of gnuplot I am pretty sure they would not update update octave either.

People who would want to compile their own new version of octave can as

well compile a newer version of gnuplot (and install it in some special location

if they want to keep the old version).

So I think we should keep 5.x version of gnuplot as a requirement for the
upcoming octave 4.2 release.​

 

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Tatsuro 

​Dmitri.
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