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Re: Is gnuplot version 5 requirements for octave 4.2?
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Ben Abbott |
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Re: Is gnuplot version 5 requirements for octave 4.2? |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Aug 2016 20:07:01 -0400 |
> On Aug 20, 2016, at 7:57 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> This is discussed on another thread.
>
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Updated-octave-plot-compare-td4679338.html
>
>
> In the thread, it is discussed whether upcoming octave 4.2 should support
> gnuplot 4.6.
>
> I wrote
>
> ***************************************************
> 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
>
> *******************************************************************
> 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