Re: Updated octave_plot_compare

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

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