Re: Updated octave_plot_compare

[edmund ronald]

Tatsuro, 

 Can you send an email from that thread or something, please? I am responding because I got emailed. 

Edmund

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On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:

>From: edmund ronald 
>To: Dmitri A. Sergatskov 
>Cc: Tatsuro MATSUOKA ; Octave Maintainers 
>Date: 2016/8/22, Mon 04:55
>Subject: Re: Updated octave_plot_compare

>
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>On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 1:04 AM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov <address@hidden> wrote:
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>On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>> 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.​ 
>>​....​ 
>>
>>>Tatsuro 
>>​Dmitri.
>>--
>>​
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>
>Dimitri,
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> 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
>

Edmund (and Dmitri)


The topic for gnuplot is not original scope of Andy's post.
I made another thread titled 

Is gnuplot version 5 requirements for octave 4.2?


http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Is-gnuplot-version-5-requirements-for-octave-4-2-td4679366.html


Please discuss there.
I will transfer your post there.

Tatsuro