Re: Minimum gnuplot version for Octave 4.2?

[Rik]

On 09/14/2016 11:16 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 09/14/2016 01:26 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 09:52:14 -0700, Rik wrote:
>>> Is there any objection to requiring a minimum gnuplot version of 4.4 for
>>> the next release?  The release date was March 2010, or 6.5 years ago.  The
>>> 4.2 series had a release date of April 2007, but I don't think anyone has
>>> tried to use Octave with gnuplot 4.2.X and I'm not really sure it would
>>> work anymore.  In our own README.gnuplot we say, "Octave works best with
>>> gnuplot 4.4 or higher, which is available from http://www.gnuplot.info.";
>>>
>>> I happened to notice in the documentation for image() that we still have
>>> "*Warning:* X and Y are ignored when using gnuplot 4.0 or earlier." which
>>> is horrendously out of date.
>>
>> None here.
>>
>> RHEL/CentOS 5 has gnuplot 4.0 and RHEL/CentOS 6 has gnuplot 4.2. All
>> other current supported versions of distros that I know of have 4.4 or
>> later. I think it's safe to drop checks and warnings messages for any
>> version lower than 4.4. Gnuplot should be very easy to build on older
>> GNU or UNIX distros that may need a newer version.
>
> It's OK with me as well.
>
> jwe
>

Okay, done in this cset
(http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/a666e3ee6af8).

--Rik