Re: Is gnuplot version 5 requirements for octave 4.2?

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Ben Abbott 
> To: Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
> Cc: Ben Abbott ; octave-maintainers
> Date: 2016/8/21, Sun 09:07
> Subject: Re: Is gnuplot version 5 requirements for octave 4.2?
> 
>>  On Aug 20, 2016, at 7:57 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA  
> 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
>> 
>>  ***************************************************
>>  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
>> 
>>  *******************************************************************
>>  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.​ 
>>  ​....​ 
>> 
>>  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



In the reply to Dmitri in the original thread, Edmund wrote
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Dimitri,

 If you don't want to support LTS releases you should say so explicitly to the 
Ubuntu maintainers, I believe. 
 I have quite a few Mac VM users of Trusty Tahr Ubuntu LTS who are using my 
script to download Octave from the "stable" ppa. Now that I have read your 
position on this I will migrate to a newer version, but of course migration 
snowballs into non-regression testing. Which is precisely what LTS releases are 
designed to minimise. As for your position that "users" should compile Octave 
or Gnuplot, please understand that it is not shared by all of this list, or at 
least not shared by some of the idiots on this list. 

Edmund
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Again I will write this point. 
This is originally discussed :
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Updated-octave-plot-compare-td4679338.html


But the topic of gnuplot is not scope of original thread so that I made a new 
thread.

Tatsuro