Re: Is gnuplot version 5 requirements for octave 4.2?

[Ben Abbott]

> On Aug 20, 2016, at 7:57 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> This is discussed on another thread.
> 
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Updated-octave-plot-compare-td4679338.html
> 
> 
> In the thread, it is discussed whether upcoming octave 4.2 should support 
> gnuplot 4.6.
> 
> I wrote
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> 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. 
> 
> Dmitri wrote
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> 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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> 
> Is gnuplot version 5 requirements for octave 4.2? 
> 
> For windows, mxe-octave provides gnuplot 5.0.4.
> 
> For Mac OS X, pre-built gnuplot 5 seem to be available.
> 
> On major commercial OS, drop of gnuplot 4.6 seem not to be a problem. 
> 
> For users who use linux distributions (or other Unix family?), this is a  
> problem.
> 
> Tatsuro  

Is there a a problem with 4.6 support, or maybe there is a problem supporting 
both 5.0 and 4.6?

Ben