Re: Is gnuplot version 5 requirements for octave 4.2?

[edmund ronald]

 Thx - I'll file that away for later reference if I really need to do it. 

 

 Of course, in the end one can also just tell users to install the latest Ubuntu, which usually comes with some working version of Octave :)

Edmund

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On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 4:49 AM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:

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>From: edmund ronald 
>To: Mike Miller
>Cc: help-octave Octave 
>Date: 2016/8/23, Tue 10:50
>Subject: Re: Is gnuplot version 5 requirements for octave 4.2?
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>On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 2:58 AM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
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>On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 20:07:01 -0400, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>> > On Aug 20, 2016, at 7:57 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>> > Is gnuplot version 5 requirements for octave 4.2?
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>>> > For windows, mxe-octave provides gnuplot 5.0.4.
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>>> > For Mac OS X, pre-built gnuplot 5 seem to be available.
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>>> > On major commercial OS, drop of gnuplot 4.6 seem not to be a problem.
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>>> > For users who use linux distributions (or other Unix family?), this is a  problem.
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>>> > Tatsuro
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>>> Is there a a problem with 4.6 support, or maybe there is a problem supporting both 5.0 and 4.6?
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>>There are problems currently, see
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>>  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/ ?48033
>>  https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/ ?48832
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>>As far as I can tell, the default branch has introduced new
>>incompatibilities with gnuplot 4 as a result of changes made to support
>>improved features / changing syntax in gnuplot 5.
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>>Personally I have no problem with this move, as long as an explict
>>dependency on gnuplot >= 5.0 is declared, or someone who cares about
>>gnuplot support puts in the effort and additional logic to continue to
>>work with gnuplot 4.2 / 4.4 / 4.6 / pick a version.
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>>Right now, the scripts say the minimum version is 4.2.5. This is not
>>correct in practice, which is why I reported #48033 and set it as a
>>release blocker.
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>>mike
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>I'm trying to figure out what I should do to keep the Mac VM version alive for its users. 
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>I think I have hundreds of existing users who use like the VM solution, it is a fallback for when Fruit Corp breaks the native version again, and last not least it's really useful I believe to have a Mac version which can build and run an Octave library or add-on that works under Linux, and supplies bit-for-bit identical calculation results. 
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>AFAIK there is no Gnuplot 5 package available for Trusty - I don't know the reason for that. 
>https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/gnuplot5
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>Trusty has an EOL of 2019
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>Xenial is probably not usable with Vagrant etc at the moment. 
>Yakety is probably patched but has an EOL of February 2017
>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
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>My guess is that Xenial will eventually get patched for Vagrant as emulation is mission critical for Ubuntu, and they cannot afford to have an LTS which is incompatibel with Vagrant,  so if I move the base box to Xenial in a couple of months, the problem is solved. I don't want to move to anything except a LTS. Maybe the move was due anyway so at this point I'm not going to protest. 
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>Or maybe I should move away from Ubuntu? Reasons? Suggestions? 
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>Edmund

I know the below is not what you want because usual users are not familiar to build application from source.

The gnuplot 5.0 can be build on Ubuntu 14.04. It is rather easier than to build octave.


>From terminal sudo apt-get build-dep gnuplot
Install qt5 stuff by synaptic package manager.

Download gnuplot-5.0.4.tar.gz from gnuplot official site and expand appropriate folder.

./configure --with-qt=qt5

make
make check
sudo make install

Tatsuro