Re: Is gnuplot version 5 requirements for octave 4.2?

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

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>On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:38 AM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:
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>----- Original Message -----
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>>> 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  
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>>> wrote:
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>>>>  This is discussed on another thread.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> http://octave.1599824.n4. nabble.com/Updated-octave- 
>>> plot-compare-td4679338.html
>>>>
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>>>>  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.​
>>>>  ​....​
>>>>
>>>>  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
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>>In the reply to Dmitri in the original thread, Edmund wrote
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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
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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
>>
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>From: edmund ronald 
>To: Tatsuro MATSUOKA  
>Cc: Ben Abbott ; Octave Maintainers ; Dmitri A. Sergatskov 
>Date: 2016/8/22, Mon 07:41
>Subject: Re: Is gnuplot version 5 requirements for octave 4.2?
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>I've got lost. If you can send a list email that lands in the correct place 
>please do so, otherwise I give up - and you've solved your problem.
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>Edmund


Your reply to the above point to my new thread.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2016-08/msg00285.html

(Nabble archive has a little delay so that I have pointed to the gnu archive.)
 
If you have further opinion, please reply this or successive mails.

Tatsuro