Re: goals for 3.1

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Nov-2007, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

| I agree with that.  It is just confusion.  In fact, why not get rid
| of them for 3.0?  That would give a clean break for transitioning
| from the old way of interacting with gnuplot to the new way of
| interacting with gnuplot.

That's another possibility.

| If the approach I explained in the last post were made to work,
| i.e., able to send commands to the __plot_stream__ and have whatever
| is on the other end respond accordingly, then that gives the
| flexibility needed.  One could write their own __gnuplot_X__()
| consisting of a dozen commands or less.  If we could write a script
| as such before 3.0 and verify it works, then post it somewhere that
| would put the issue to rest for at least the foreseeable future.

The problem with this approach is that there might not be a
__plot_stream__ in a future version of Octave.

jwe