Re: Is gnuplot version 5 requirements for octave 4.2?

[edmund ronald]

I'm trying to figure out what I should do to keep the Mac VM version alive for its users. 

I think I have hundreds of existing users who use like the VM solution, it is a fallback for when Fruit Corp breaks the native version again, and last not least it's really useful I believe to have a Mac version which can build and run an Octave library or add-on that works under Linux, and supplies bit-for-bit identical calculation results. 

AFAIK there is no Gnuplot 5 package available for Trusty - I don't know the reason for that. 

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/gnuplot5

Trusty has an EOL of 2019

Xenial is probably not usable with Vagrant etc at the moment. 

Yakety is probably patched but has an EOL of February 2017

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

My guess is that Xenial will eventually get patched for Vagrant as emulation is mission critical for Ubuntu, and they cannot afford to have an LTS which is incompatibel with Vagrant,  so if I move the base box to Xenial in a couple of months, the problem is solved. I don't want to move to anything except a LTS. Maybe the move was due anyway so at this point I'm not going to protest. 

Or maybe I should move away from Ubuntu? Reasons? Suggestions? 

Edmund

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On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 2:58 AM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:

On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 20:07:01 -0400, Ben Abbott wrote:
> > On Aug 20, 2016, at 7:57 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:
[…]
> > 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?

There are problems currently, see

  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48033
  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48832

As far as I can tell, the default branch has introduced new
incompatibilities with gnuplot 4 as a result of changes made to support
improved features / changing syntax in gnuplot 5.

Personally I have no problem with this move, as long as an explict
dependency on gnuplot >= 5.0 is declared, or someone who cares about
gnuplot support puts in the effort and additional logic to continue to
work with gnuplot 4.2 / 4.4 / 4.6 / pick a version.

Right now, the scripts say the minimum version is 4.2.5. This is not
correct in practice, which is why I reported #48033 and set it as a
release blocker.

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mike