Re: R: octave 3.0.4 rc5

[Rob Mahurin]

On Feb 26, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Rob Mahurin <address@hidden> [2009-02-26 01:43]:
> > On Feb 26, 2009, at 1:22 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> > > I can not confirm your result, 3.0.4 rc5 + your patch (cygwin)  
> > > still crash
> > > on Tetsuro's exdiff.m and also on John's
> > > http://jbrwww.che.wisc.edu/home/jbraw/chemreacfun/figures.html
> >
> > I believe the 3.0.4 rc5 tarball came from revision 7e472cf19d4a in  
> > the
> > 3-0-x repository.  Since then there have been two patches
> >
> >         http://hg.tw-math.de/release-3-0-x/rev/489d0ba75c42 to graphics.cc
> >         http://hg.tw-math.de/release-3-0-x/rev/e1779a6d4b7a to legends.m
> >
> > in addition to the reversion of clf.m I posted to the list.  I did my
> > testing with all three changes.
>
> I applied the three mentioned patches to 3.0.4-rc5 and the jbraw  
> plot crash
> test run now without the axes handle errors on my Debian squeeze  
> system.
>
> However, after a given point (I think after fig-4-22) all the  
> graphs become
> superimposed.  Also, the clf() command becomes inneffective after  
> example
> fig-4-15 is executed.
>
> Do you observe the same behavior?


I do not, on OSX 10.4.11 and some version of Red Hat Enterprise.

There seem to be two patches against the current 3-0-x tip for the  
axis handle bug.  One is from me, reverting clf.m to a 2007 version,

	https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2009- 
February/011100.html

and one from Marco Atzeri, deleting a figure's children explicitly,

	https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2009- 
February/011107.html

Both of these appear to work equally well for me.  Marco Atzeri's  
patch keeps new functionality not in 3.0.3.

Just before sending, I see another patch from Rafael Laboissiere,

	https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2009- 
February/011111.html

which looks like it would not handle figures with multiple axes  
correctly, consistent with Rafael's observations.

Which to apply seems like a call for the release manager.

Cheers,
Rob

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Rob Mahurin
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